Agatharchides or Agatharchus (Greek: Ἀγαθαρχίδης or Ἀγάθαρχος, Agatharchos) of Cnidus was a Greek historian and geographer (flourished 2nd century BC).
BC). Agatharchides is believed to have been born at Cnidus, hence his appellation. As Stanley M. Burstein notes, the "evidence for Agatharchides' life...
geographers and historians, including Herodotus (5th century BCE), Agatharchides (2nd century BCE), Diodorus Siculus (1st century BCE), Strabo (64/63...
Lysimachus, Poseidonius, Apollonius Molon, and in Apion and Tacitus. Agatharchides of Cnidus ridiculed the practices of the Jews and the "absurdity of...
Photius, Diodorus and Strabo (English): Stanley M. Burnstein (tr.), Agatharchides of Cnidus: On the Eritraean Sea (1989), 132–173, esp. 152–3 (§92).)...
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...
Mountains. Various expeditions failed to determine the river's source. Agatharchides records that in the time of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, a military expedition...
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...
Egypt during the 4th millennium BCE The Greek historian and geographer Agatharchides had documented ship-faring among the early Egyptians: "During the prosperous...
Macoraba and found them unsatisfactory. Based on an earlier report by Agatharchides of Cnidus, Diodorus Siculus mentions a temple along the Red Sea coast...
University Press: 1977), p. 190. George Wynn Brereton Huntingford, Agatharchides, The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: With Some Extracts from Agatharkhidēs...
(Cambridge University Press: 1977), p.190 George Wynn Brereton Huntingford, Agatharchides, The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: With Some Extracts from Agatharkhidēs...
their burrows. Some historians believe that Strabo's λέων μύρμηξ and Agatharchides's μυρμηκολέων, most probably are the marmot. An anatomically accurate...
speaks of him as the founder of the florid Asiatic style of composition. Agatharchides, Dionysius of Halicarnassus (De compositione verborum 18) and Cicero...
University Press: 1977), p. 190. George Wynn Brereton Huntingford, Agatharchides, The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: With Some Extracts from Agatharkhidēs...
in future conservation strategies". Greek historian and geographer Agatharchides (2nd century BC) mentions the rhinoceros in his book On the Erythraean...
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...
frankincense region (Southern Arabia). Other Ancient-Greek historians like Agatharchides, Diodorus Siculus and Strabo mention Arabs living in Mesopotamia (along...
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)...
Chaeremon, Lysimachus, Poseidonius, Apollonius Molon, Apion and Tacitus. Agatharchides of Cnidus wrote about the "ridiculous practices" of the Jews and of...
matrilineal Bantu-speaking peoples in East Africa and Central Africa. Agatharchides of Cnidus (2nd century BCE) indicated that "troglodyte" ethnic groups...
although there is hard no proof of this. There is even a debate on whether Agatharchides was referring to Vugava when he wrote: "On the island of Vis is a wine...
appearing as "Ethiopia, Ethiopians" in the English King James Version. Agatharchides provides a relatively detailed description of the gold mining system...
Temanites. Outside of the Bible, it was mentioned by Ptolemy, Pliny, Agatharchides, and Josephus. It was noted as halfway between Damascus and Mecca, and...
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