Aphrodisianus
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Aphrodisianus (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδισιανός) was a Persian man who wrote in Ancient Greek a work called Description of the East (or A Picture of the World), a fragment of which is given by the 17th century philologist Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange.[1][2] An extract from this work is said to exist in the royal library at Vienna (now the Austrian National Library).
He was also quoted as a reference in the Chronicle of Hippolytus of Thebes and in the anonymous work known as the Ravenna Cosmography.[3]
Aphrodisianus also wrote a historical work on the Christian Mary.[4] Some speculate that this Aphrodisianus was a different author from the one who wrote Description of the East.[3][5]
