Anazarbus
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Anazarbus, also known as Justinopolis, was an ancient Cilician city. Under the late Roman Empire, it was the capital of Cilicia Secunda. Roman emperor Justinian I rebuilt the city in 527 after a stron
The triumphal arch of Anazarbus was later converted to the city's South Gate.
General view of the site
Anazarbus West Gate
Digital reconstruction of the main gate of the city
Dioscorides
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Pedanius Dioscorides, "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek pharmacologist, physician, botanist, and author of De materia medica, a 5-volume Greek encyclopedic pharmacopeia on herbal medicine and
Anazarbus
…This account cannot be accurate, as Valesius remarks, for it was called Anazarbus in Pliny's time. There are three writers of antiquity from this city. Pedanius Dioscorides is called a native of Anazarbus; but the period of Dioscorides is not certain. It was also the home of the poet Oppian and the historian Asclepiades…
Dioscorides receives a mandrake root, an illumination from the 6th century (c. 512) Greek Juliana Anicia Codex (detail)
Blackberry from the 6th-century Vienna Dioscurides manuscript
Cover of an early printed version of De materia medica, Lyon, 1554
The genus Dioscorea includes different species of yam.