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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Mario Regali and first published on 08/09/2008.

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A web of information allows us to place the life of Agatharchides between 200 BCE (or a few years earlier) and the last decades of the 2^nd c. BCE. In codex 213 of the Bibliotheca¹ (p. 171a 6-171b 12), Photius² states that Agatharch…