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Archagathus (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχάγαθος), a Peloponnesian, the son of Lysanias, who settled at Rome as a practitioner of medicine around 219 BCE, and, according to Lucius Cassius Hemina, [1] was the first person who made it a distinct profession in that city.
Archagathus was a son of Agathocles of Syracuse and had a brother named Heracleides. [1] His father was the Greek tyrant of Syracuse who later became King of Sicily. [2] [3] His mother was the widow of his father's late patron, Damas. He accompanied his father in an expedition to Carthage in 310 BC.
Archagathus of Libya (flourished 4th century BC and 3rd century BC), a Syracusan Greek Prince and a posthumous paternal half-brother to the first named Archagathus. He was the third son of Agathocles of Syracuse from his third wife Theoxena of Syracuse; Archagathus (son of Lysanias), a physician who lived in the 2nd century BC
Archagathus (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχάγαθος, fl. 4th century BC) was a Syracusan Greek Prince of Magna Graecia. He was the son of Archagathus by a wife whose name is unknown, being a paternal grandson of the Greek tyrant (and later "king" of Sicily) Agathocles of Syracuse from his first wife.
According to surviving evidence, Archagathus was a person of high standing [26] who appeared to be a totally unknown private person [27] and was loyal to his family, in particular to his uncle Magas. [28] We also learn from surviving evidence that Archagathus had a wife, a noblewoman of very high status called Stratonice.
Maritime expeditions in the Age of Discovery were a means of expanding colonial empires, establishing new trade routes and extending diplomatic and trade relations to new territories, but with the Enlightenment scientific curiosity became a new motive for exploration to add to the commercial and political ambitions of the past. [2]
The Egyptian Expedition under the Orders of Bonaparte, painting by Léon Cogniet. Napoleon's army carried out excavations during its Egyptian campaign, in 1798–1801, which also was the first major overseas archaeological expedition. The emperor took with him a force of 500 civilian scientists, specialists in fields such as biology, chemistry ...
Juan Pardo was a Spanish explorer who was active in the latter half of the 16th century. He led a Spanish expedition from the Atlantic coast through what is now North and South Carolina and into eastern Tennessee [1] on the orders of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, in an attempt to find an inland route to a silver-producing town in Mexico.