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  • The name Aphrodisias is still used by the "Hierocles Synecdemus", by Novel clx of

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • In 1979 archaeologists working on the eastern side of the ancient city center of Aphrodisias in Roman Asia Minor, a small but prosperous provincial city with a population of around fifty thousand, made a remarkable discovery.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • On the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias, see Smith (1987); Ginsburg (2006, 89); C. B. Rose (1997, 47–48); Gradel (2002, 21).

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • While Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias placed the soul in the arche of the heart, Hippocrates and Plato located the powers of perception and cognition in the brain.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • In his preserved reply Augustus apologetically explains to the islanders why he must refuse a privilege he had granted to no one but the people of Aphrodisias.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • Unlike Alexander of Aphrodisias, however, most of these commentators regarded themselves as Platonists.

    Commentators on Aristotle Falcon, Andrea 2009

  • Adrastus of Aphrodisias defended the relationship between the

    Commentators on Aristotle Falcon, Andrea 2009

  • Alexander of Aphrodisias developed a line of interpretation that made the active intellect a non-human intellect and identified it with God.

    Commentators on Aristotle Falcon, Andrea 2009

  • From 1999 to 2004 he worked at the Deutsches Apotheken-Museum in Heidelberg, at the excavation of the Antiquities Service of the German Federal State of Baden-Württemberg in Ladenburg am Neckar, as an archaeologist-draftsman at the excavation at Kaiserpfalz in Ingelheim am Rhein, and as an assistant researcher at the Institute of Ancient History at Heidelberg University (publication of Aphrodisias inscriptions under the direction of A. Chaniotis).

    Meet the Team « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project 2009

  • The most important sites this year were Aphrodisias and Ephesos.

    Stone Studies « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009

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