Eudoxos from Kyzikos

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Eudoxus from Kyzikos was in the 2nd century BC. A Greek navigator.

Eudoxus was the rediscoverer of the sea route from Egypt around the Arabian Peninsula to India . This route was previously used in 508 BC. Chr. Skylax , but his knowledge was lost again. Later, Eudoxos tried to circumnavigate Africa, starting in the Mediterranean . On this trip he came to Morocco , where his ship is lost. A counterclockwise bypass was hardly possible with the ships of that time because of the many countercurrents.

All source documents relating to him are collected in The Fragments of the Greek Historians Part V, No. 2206.

Trivia

Eudoxus is the first-person narrator in L. Sprague de Camp's historical novel Die Reisen des Eudoxus (The Golden Wind) , which is about the adventures of Eudoxus and Hippalus on their first sea voyages from Egypt to India.

literature

  • JH Thiel: Eudoxos van Cyzikus. Amsterdam 1939.
  • Pierre L. Eggermont: Hippalus and the Discovery of the Monsoons. In: Aristide Théodoridès , Paul Naster, Julien Ries (eds.): Humor, Travail et Science en Orient. Leuven 1988, pp. 343-364.
personal data
SURNAME Eudoxos from Kyzikos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek navigator
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr.