Aphroditē

URI https://medievalmideast.org/practice/550

A practice

Names

  • Greek: Ἀφροδίτης = Aphroditēs 1
  • Latin: Cypris 2
  • Latin: Uenus 3
  • Syriac: ܦܪܘܕܝܛܝ = PRWDYṬY 4

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.1 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg2-3 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Aphrodite: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.15 [Greek with English translation].
  • 2Cypris: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 27, 14. [Latin].
  • 3Uenus: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 31, 2. [Latin].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 40 [Syriac].
    • Aphrodite: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 62, 246; III, 343 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Aphroditē” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/550.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; categorization, matching, Greek transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and matching, Syriac name collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization and Greek collection from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Margaret Gaida: disambiguation from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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