Euthymenes
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Euthymenes of Massalia (; Euthymenēs ho Massaliōtēs; fl. early sixth century BCE) was a Greek explorer from Massalia (modern Marseille), who explored the coast of West Africa as far, apparently, as a great river, of which the outflow made the sea at its mouth fresh or brackish.
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- Person.name
- Euthymenes
- Person.image
- Euthymènes.jpg
- Person.image_caption
- The statue of Euthymenes (by Auguste Ottin) on the façade of the Palais de la Bourse, Marseille
- Person.birth_place
- Massilia (Marseille)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Marseille
- Occupation
- explorer
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Image
- Euthymènes.jpg
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- time period
- classical antiquity
- date of birth
- 0600-01-01
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
- name in native language
- Εὐθυμένης ὁ Μασσαλιώτης
- Commons category
- Euthymenes
- date of death
- 0600-00-00
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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Euthymenes of Massalia (; Euthymenēs ho Massaliōtēs; fl. early sixth century BCE) was a Greek explorer from Massalia (modern Marseille), who explored the coast of West Africa as far, apparently, as a great river, of which the outflow made the sea at its mouth fresh or brackish.
His published accounts have not survived, but seem to have been known, at least at secondhand, by Plutarch, who writes "Euthymenes the Massilian concludes that the Nile is filled by Oceanus and that sea which is outward from it, the latter being naturally sweet." Euthymenes thought that this river was the Nile, but the river in question may have been the Senegal.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Euthymenes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.