Agatharchides or Agatharchus of Cnidus was a Greek historian and geographer.
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Agatharchides
said · 1989
In that part of Aithiopia that lies above Egypt there lives beside the river called the Asa [sic: Astabaras] the tribe of the Root-Eaters (Rhizophagi). . . .
V.51b-52b (tr. Stanley M. Burstein, 1989),
Agatharchides
said · 1989
Between them [Fibre-Eaters and Seed-Eaters] there is little difference.
V.52a (tr. Stanley M. Burstein, 1989),
Agatharchides
said · 1989
Their women are in common as are their children. Only with the wife of the tyrant is it not permitted to have sexual intercourse.
V.62a (tr. Stanley M. Burstein, 1989),
Writers born in the 210s BC 6
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Born 208 BC
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