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Eudoxus of Cyzicus
Born	fl. c. 130 BC Cyzicus, Ancient Greece
Died	Unknown
Occupation	Navigator
Known for	Voyages to India, African circumnavigation attempt

Eudoxus of Cyzicus (/ˈjuːdəksəs/; Greek: Εὔδοξος ὁ Κυζικηνός, Eúdoxos ho Kyzikēnós; fl.

Eudoxus' theory of proportion

c. 130 BC) was a Greek navigator who explored the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean under the service of Ptolemy VIII, king of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt.^[1]

Voyages to India

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According to Poseidonius, as later reported in Strabo's Geography,^[2] Eudoxus of Cyzicus was one of the first Greek navigators to sail across the Indian Ocean using the monsoon wind system.

The first of his two voyages to India took place in 118 BC and was guided by an Indian sailor who had been rescued in the Red Sea and taken to Ptolemy VIII in Alexandria. Eudoxus returned with a cargo of aromatics and precious stones, prompting a second voyage in