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\nThe original theatre of Aphrodisias in Asia Minor in Turkey, dates from the Late Hellenistic period, but it was extensively renovated between 38 and 28 BC. An architrave inscription records that the remodeled theater was dedicated to...\nThe original theatre of Aphrodisias in Asia Minor in Turkey, dates from the Late Hellenistic period, but it was extensively renovated between 38 and 28 BC. An architrave inscription records that the remodeled theater was dedicated to Aphrodite and to the Demos (people) by G. Iulius Zoilos, during the reign of Octavian. Zoilos was an Aphrodisian slave freed by Octavian. By the 30s BC Zoilos had become wealthy and influential in his hometown. Though the inscription is not dated, historical data on Zoilos and Octavian allows us to place the renovation between 38 and 28 BC. We know that the renovation occurred later than 38 BC because Zoilos was not active in Aphrodisias until that year, and we know that the renovation predates 27 BC because the architrave inscription does not call Octavian Augustus, a name he adopted in 27 BC.\n
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2017
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