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Agathedaemon of Alexandria
Agathedaemon of Alexandria, map designer, probably lived in the 2nd century AD. Some manuscripts of the Geography of Ptolemy contain twenty-seven maps, which are stated to have been drawn by Agathodaemon, who "delineated the whole world according to the eight books of Ptolemy's geography.
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