Aphrodisias (mod. Geyre),
was a *Carian city, probably established in the 2nd cent. bc as the political centre of ‘the Plarasans and Aphrodisians’ (Plarasans dropped from the description under Augustus); site of vigorous prehistoric and Archaic communities honouring a mother-goddess, called Aphrodite perhaps from the 3rd cent. ... ...
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