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Aphrodisium_(Arcadia) Latitude and Longitude:

37°23′15″N 22°13′06″E / 37.387375°N 22.218216°E / 37.387375; 22.218216
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Aphrodisium or Aphrodision ( Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίσιον) was a town in ancient Arcadia, in the district Maenalia. It was not far from Megalopolis, on the road to Megalopolis and Tegea. [1]

Its site is near the modern Marmaria/Ag. Ioannis. [2] [3]

References

  1. ^ Pausanias (1918). "44.2". Description of Greece. Vol. 8. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  2. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN  978-0-691-03169-9.
  3. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Aphrodisium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

37°23′15″N 22°13′06″E / 37.387375°N 22.218216°E / 37.387375; 22.218216