• Agatharchides or Agatharchus (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαθαρχίδης or Ἀγάθαρχος, Agatharchos) of Cnidus was a Greek historian and geographer (flourished 2nd century...
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    Agatharchides is a lunar impact crater located at the southern edge of Oceanus Procellarum, in the region between the Mare Humorum and Mare Nubium. To...
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    Photius, Diodorus and Strabo (English): Stanley M. Burnstein (tr.), Agatharchides of Cnidus: On the Eritraean Sea (1989), 132–173, esp. 152–3 (§92).)...
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  • Lysimachus, Poseidonius, Apollonius Molon, and in Apion and Tacitus. Agatharchides of Cnidus ridiculed the practices of the Jews and the "absurdity of...
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  • geographers and historians, including Herodotus (5th century BCE), Agatharchides (2nd century BCE), Diodorus Siculus (1st century BCE), Strabo (64/63...
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    Egypt during the 4th millennium BCE The Greek historian and geographer Agatharchides had documented ship-faring among the early Egyptians: "During the prosperous...
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    Mountains. Various expeditions failed to determine the river's source. Agatharchides records that in the time of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, a military expedition...
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    Greek navigators continued to explore and compile data on the Red Sea. Agatharchides collected information about the sea in the 2nd century BC. The Periplus...
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    in future conservation strategies". Greek historian and geographer Agatharchides (2nd century BC) mentions the rhinoceros in his book On the Erythraean...
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    Macoraba and found them unsatisfactory. Based on an earlier report by Agatharchides of Cnidus, Diodorus Siculus mentions a temple along the Red Sea coast...
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    their burrows. Some historians believe that Strabo's λέων μύρμηξ and Agatharchides's μυρμηκολέων, most probably are the marmot. An anatomically accurate...
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    University Press: 1977), p. 190. George Wynn Brereton Huntingford, Agatharchides, The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: With Some Extracts from Agatharkhidēs...
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    University Press: 1977), p. 190. George Wynn Brereton Huntingford, Agatharchides, The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: With Some Extracts from Agatharkhidēs...
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    was a source for Strabo and Arrian, among others. On the Red Sea by Agatharchides. Fragments preserved in Diodorus Siculus and Photius. The Periplus of...
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    (Cambridge University Press: 1977), p.190 George Wynn Brereton Huntingford, Agatharchides, The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: With Some Extracts from Agatharkhidēs...
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    1177/030751332901500103. JSTOR 3854009. Referenced in a papyrus: SB 5111 Agatharchides FGrH 86 F20; Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca 1.37.5 Theocritus Idyll 17...
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    frankincense region (Southern Arabia). Other Ancient-Greek historians like Agatharchides, Diodorus Siculus and Strabo mention Arabs living in Mesopotamia (along...
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    and the Ancient Near East. I.B.Tauris. p. 222. ISBN 9780857718013. Agatharchides FGrH 86 F20; Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca 1.37.5 Török, László (2009)...
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  • century BCE), Roman history Gaius Acilius (fl. 155 BCE), Roman history Agatharchides (fl. mid–2nd century BCE), Greek history Polybius (203 – c. 120 BCE)...
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    the Red Sea around the time of Alexander the Great is described by Agatharchides. Strabo's Geographica (completed after 23 CE) mentions Greeks from Egypt...
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  • matrilineal Bantu-speaking peoples in East Africa and Central Africa. Agatharchides of Cnidus (2nd century BCE) indicated that "troglodyte" ethnic groups...
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    the Red Sea around the time of Alexander the Great is described by Agatharchides. Strabo's Geographica (completed after 23 AD) mentions Greeks from Egypt...
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  • speaks of him as the founder of the florid Asiatic style of composition. Agatharchides, Dionysius of Halicarnassus (De compositione verborum 18) and Cicero...
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  • Aepinus (1724–1802) WGPSN Agatharchides 19°51′S 31°07′W / 19.85°S 31.11°W / -19.85; -31.11 (Agatharchides) 51.98 1935 Agatharchides (died c. 150 BC) WGPSN...
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  • Thucydides Xenophon Hellenica Oxyrhynchia Abydenus Aesopus (historian) Agatharchides Agathocles (writers) Alexander Polyhistor Anticlides Antipater Antisthenes...
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  • with the "Berecynthan land", see Pseudo-Plutarch De Fluviis 10.4-5 [= Agatharchides FGrHist 284 F 3]. Farnell, p. 499; Golann, pp. 43–44; Munn, p. 333;...
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  • that female circumcision was practiced among the ancient Egyptians. Agatharchides of Cnidus (2nd century BCE) indicated that "troglodyte" ethnic groups...
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    (Greek: Ασταβόρας). Other ancient authors mentioning the name include Agatharchides, who called it Astabaras (Greek: Ασταβάρας), and Ptolemy (Geography...
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    Eratosthenes (c. 276–194 BC) Scymnus (fl. 180s BC) Hipparchus (c. 190–120 BC) Agatharchides (2nd century BC) Posidonius (c. 135–51 BC) Pseudo-Scymnus (c. 90 BC)...
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    Homilies on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans 31, on 16.1, and Agatharchides, On the Erythraean Sea (frg. 23–29) apud Photius, Bibliotheca p. 447...
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