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283:"...the duplication from the original into existing representations is likely to produce, from changes or small variations, remarkable anomalies. And if it should come to pass that there is no independent evidence unearthed for method of map–making, then we are unable to find the proper image and helpless to reveal a solution. It has happened very many times with the maps of Marinus, they have not succeeded in completing a true copy of the original, attempting to do it offhand from commentaries and wrong data for the most part through collective agreement and the spreading abroad of misleading data..." 116:
and not as a caption on the maps themselves. Since the inscriptions are the only surviving reference to him and these manuscripts only survive from the very late 13th century, the most that can be stated conclusively is that he lived sometime between the years AD 150 and 1300, although his
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for a strictly literal reading of the inscription, showing that differences in the early manuscripts imply Agathodaemon drafted the world map but not the regional maps.
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Dinse, Paul (1913), "Die handschriftlichen Ptolemäus-Karten und die Agathodämonfrage [The Handwritten Ptolemy-Map and the Agathodaemon Question]",
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Commentary on the Origin of Ptolemy's Geographical Works and Their Appended Maps, Whether They Were Truly of Greek or Tyrian Origin
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Commentatio de Fontibus Geographicorum Ptolemaei Tabularumque iis Annexarum; Num ii Graecae an Vero Tyriae Originis Fuerint?
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A major consideration is that the current form of Ptolemy's regional maps are done according to Marinus's
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argued for Agathodaemon having been the cartographer responsible for these original maps;
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Agathodaemon is sometimes conflated or confused with two other figures: the 3rd-century
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The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
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classical name and his epithet—"the Alexandrian"—probably places him before
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Ptolemy's Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters
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Agathodaemon is mentioned in some of the earliest manuscripts of
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mentions a third manuscript without specifying its location.
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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for his having been the transcriber of the original
463: 541:Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdunde zu Berlin 439: 379: 352: 350: 635:, vol. I, Boston, p. 65, archived from 451: 685: 335: 178:-favored of the two projections Ptolemy offers. 347: 23:cartographer. For other uses of this name, see 296:], and twelve maps of the whole of Asia." 16:2nd century Greek geographer and cartographer 112:The line appears in the running text of the 655:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 553:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 497:Berggren, J. Lennart; et al. (2000), 496: 433: 409: 373: 315: 664: 565: 508:, Princeton: Princeton University Press 481: 469: 421: 397: 686: 585: 445: 624: 538: 513: 457: 385: 341: 607: 356: 237:, called the Agathodaemon by Ptolemy 67:, probably in the 2nd century A.D. 13: 569:(1914), "Zur Ptolemäusforschung", 14: 715: 125:in 641 and not contemporary with 286: 270:without specifying which ones. 309: 277: 253: 1: 625:Mason, Charles Peter (1867), 490: 424:, Vol. VIII, Ch. 2. 25:Agathodaemon (disambiguation) 514:Brown, Lloyd Arnold (1979), 303: 7: 704:Ancient Greek cartographers 629:, in Smith, William (ed.), 599:], Göttingen: Dieterich 484:, Vol. I, Ch. 20. 400:, Vol. I, Ch. 18. 206: 10: 720: 543:, Berlin, pp. 745–770 86: 39: 31:Agathodaemon of Alexandria 18: 676:The Geographical Guidance 19:This article is about an 670: 262:mentions manuscripts at 246: 94:eight books of geography 45:Agathodaímōn Alexandreùs 665:Ptolemy (April 1994) , 571:Petermanns Mitteilungen 328:Encyclopædia Britannica 51:or Hellenized Egyptian 40:Ἀγαθοδαίμων Ἀλεξανδρεὺς 699:Roman-era Alexandrians 668:Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis 195:who corresponded with 172:cylindrical projection 110: 575:On Ptolemaic Research 102:whole habitable world 82: 322:"Agathodaemon"  188:and the 5th-century 671:Γεωγραφικὴ Ὑφήγησις 241:Other Agathodaemons 225:Ptolemy's world map 98:Claudius Ptolemaeus 627:"Agathodaemon (2)" 577:], p. 287 55:, presumably from 517:The Story of Maps 711: 679: 660: 654: 646: 645: 644: 620: 604: 600: 582: 578: 562: 558: 552: 544: 534: 509: 503: 485: 479: 473: 467: 461: 455: 449: 443: 437: 431: 425: 419: 413: 407: 401: 395: 389: 383: 377: 371: 360: 354: 345: 339: 333: 332: 324: 313: 297: 290: 284: 281: 275: 257: 213:Claudius Ptolemy 127:Maximus Planudes 119:that city's fall 104:Agathodaemon of 90: 89: 88: 42: 41: 719: 718: 714: 713: 712: 710: 709: 708: 684: 683: 672: 648: 647: 642: 640: 602: 580: 560: 546: 545: 532: 501: 493: 488: 480: 476: 468: 464: 456: 452: 444: 440: 434:Berggren (2000) 432: 428: 420: 416: 412:, pp. 4–5. 410:Berggren (2000) 408: 404: 396: 392: 384: 380: 374:Berggren (2000) 372: 363: 355: 348: 340: 336: 314: 310: 306: 301: 300: 291: 287: 282: 278: 258: 254: 249: 209: 91: 28: 17: 12: 11: 5: 717: 707: 706: 701: 696: 682: 681: 662: 622: 605: 587:Heeren, A.H.L. 583: 567:Fischer, Josef 563: 536: 530: 511: 499:"Introduction" 492: 489: 487: 486: 482:Ptolemy (1994) 474: 470:Fischer (1914) 462: 450: 438: 426: 422:Ptolemy (1994) 414: 402: 398:Ptolemy (1994) 390: 378: 361: 346: 334: 319:, ed. 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Index

Alexandrine
Agathodaemon (disambiguation)
Greek
Greek
cartographer
Alexandria
Egypt
late Antiquity
Ptolemy
Geography
eight books of geography
Claudius Ptolemaeus
whole habitable world
Alexandria
that city's fall
Caliphate
Maximus Planudes
Marinus
Tyre
Heeren
Dinse
papyrus
scrolls
codices
Fischer
cylindrical projection
alchemist
Agathodaemon
grammarian
Agathodaemon

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