Aphrodisian

Aph`ro`dis´i`an

Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus. "Aphrodisian dames" [that is, courtesans].

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Tilg is particularly persuasive when he notes that both texts, alone among the extant novels, refer to the art of sculpture: this probably points to the author's Aphrodisian identity, since that city was famous for its marble statues.

Stefan Tilg, Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Novel

In his 2005 Cytherica: Aesthetic-Political Essays in an Aphrodisian Key, he defined cytherics as the sighting and siting of aphrodisian--aesthetic-erotic--environments.

Unis vers Cythere; aesthetic-political investigations in polis thought and the artful firm

Many Melanesian and some native American societies were, in Marshall Sahlins' formulation, 'Aphrodisian' in their traditions of sexual generosity, including routinely offering sexual favours to guests, traders and diplomats.