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Agatharchides
Agatharchides
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Agatharchides of Cnidus was a Greek historian and geographer of the 2nd century BCE who worked in Hellenistic Alexandria, reportedly as a tutor or secretary connected to the Ptolemaic court. He is best known for "On the Erythraean Sea" (De Rubro Mari), a detailed account of the lands and peoples around the Red Sea and the African coast, including descriptions of gold-mining, the Troglodytes, and the natural history of the region. Though his works survive only in fragments and summaries preserved by later authors such as Diodorus Siculus and Photius, he is valued as an important source on the ancient southern seas.
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About Alexandria
Alexandria (al-Iskandariyya) is the great Mediterranean port-city of northern Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE and a leading centre of learning in antiquity. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt (642) it remained a major commercial and scholarly hub; the Shadhili Sufi Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309) took his nisba from the city, and the modernist reformer Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905) was active in Egypt's intellectual life there and in Cairo.