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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="A"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="agathemerus-bio-1" n="agathemerus_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la" xml:id="tlg-0090"><surname full="yes">Agathe'merus</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Ἀγαθήμερος</surname></persName>), the son of Orthon,
      and the author of a small geographical work in two books, entitled <title xml:lang="grc">τῆς γεωγραφίας ὑποτυπώσεις ἐν ἐπιτομῆ</title> (<title>A Sketch of Geography in
       epitome</title>), addressed to his pupil Philon. His age cannot be fixed with much certainty,
      but he is supposed to have lived about the beginning of the third century after Christ. He
      lived after Ptolemy, whom he often quotes, and before the foundation of Constantinople on the
      site of Byzantium in <date when-custom="328">A. D. 328</date>, as he mentions only the old city
      Byzantium. (2.14.) Wendelin has attempted to shew that he wrote in the beginning of the third
      century, from the statement he gives of the distance of the tropic from the equator; but
      Dodwell, who thinks he lived nearer the time of Ptolemy, contends that the calculation cannot
      be depended on. From his speaking of Albion <foreign xml:lang="grc">ἐν ᾗ στρατόπεδα
       ἵδρυται</foreign>, it has been thought that he wrote not very long after the erection of
      the wall of Severus. This is probably true, but the language is scarcely definite enough to
      establish the point.</p><div><head>Works</head><div><head><foreign xml:lang="grc">τῆς γεωγραφίας ὑποτυπώσεις ἐν ἐπιτομῇ</foreign>
         (<title>A Sketch of Geography in epitome</title>)</head><p>His work consists chiefly of extracts from Ptolemy and other earlier writers. From a
        comparison with Pliny, it appears that Artemiidorus, of whose work a sort of compendium is
        contained in the first book, was one of his main authorities. He gives a short account of
        the various forms assigned to the earth by earlier writers, treats of the divisions of the
        earth, seas, and islands, the winds, and the length and shortness of the days, and then lays
        down the most important distances on the inhabited part of the earth, reckoned in stadia.
        The surname Agathemerus frequently occurs in inscriptions.</p></div></div><div><head>Further Information</head><p>Dodwell in Hudson's <hi rend="ital">Geograph. Scriptores Gr. Minores;</hi> Ukert, <hi rend="ital">Geogr. der Griechen u. Römer,</hi> pt. i. div. 1. p. 236.</p></div><byline>[<ref target="author.C.P.M">C.P.M</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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