Agathodaemon of Alexandria (,
Agathodaímon Alexandreùs) was a
Greek or
Hellenized cartographer, presumably from
Alexandria,
Egypt, in
late Antiquity, probably in the 2nd century A.D. Agathodaemon is mentioned in some of the earliest manuscripts of
Ptolemy's
Geography:
"From the eight books of geography of Claudius Ptolemaeus the whole habitable world Agathodaemon of Alexandria delineated."
The line appears in the running text of the
Geography and not as a caption on the maps themselves. Since the inscriptions are the only surviving reference to him and these manuscripts only survive from the very late 13th century, the most that can be stated conclusively is that he lived sometime between the years 150 and 1300, although his classical name and his epithet—"the Alexandrian"—probably places him before
that city's fall to the
Caliphate in 641 and not contemporary with
Maximus Planudes's reconstruction of the Ptolemaic atlas after 1295.