From Muğla Knidos Agatharchides Geography to Tralles Alexander Medicine and Halicarnassus Hegesander Laocoön: Red Sea Geography, Imperial Medicine, and Vatican Sculptures

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Periods

• Hellenistic era
• Roman era
• Ottoman era
• National Struggle & Republic
• The Aegean today

Narrative stops

• Knidos Ancient City Birthplace of Geographer Agatharchides and Military Harbor
• Tralles Ancient City Birthplace of Imperial Physician Alexander and Üç Gözler Medical School
• Halicarnassus Ancient City Birthplace of Master Sculptor Hegesander and Laocoön Sanctuary

Research sources

• Agatharchides of Knidos (2nd Century BC): Geography of the Red Sea, Nubian Gold Mines, and Ptolemaic Ethnography
• The Court Physician of Rome and Master of Vatican Sculptures: Alexander of Tralles and Hegesander of Caria