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Hecataeus ? (of Miletus) b. about -550 d. about -476
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| Lineage | Hecatomnid |
| Sex | Male |
| Full name (at birth) | Hecataeus ? |
| Other last names | of Miletus |
| Parents | |
| Wiki-page | wikipedia:Hecataeus_of_Miletus |
Events
about -550 birth:
-494 birth: Ambassador to the court of Artaphernes
occupation: Geographer, Historian
about -476 death: Ionia
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From Wikipedia:
Credited with a work entitled Ges Periodos ("Travels round the Earth" or "World Survey'), written in two books. Each book is organized in the manner of a periplus, a point-to-point coastal survey. One, on Europe, is essentially a periplus of the Mediterranean, describing each region in turn, reaching as far north as Scythia. The other book, on Asia, is arranged similarly to the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea of which a version of the 1st century CE survives. Hecataeus described the countries and inhabitants of the known world, the account of Egypt being particularly comprehensive; the descriptive matter was accompanied by a map, based upon Anaximander’s map of the earth, which he corrected and enlarged. The work only survives in some 374 fragments, by far the majority being quoted in the geographical lexicon Ethnika compiled by Stephanus of ByzantiumAnd so what?.
The other known work of Hecataeus was the Genealogiai, a rationally systematized account of the traditions and the myths of the Greeks, a break with the epic myth-making tradition, which survives in a few fragments, just enough to show what we are missing.
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- ↑ Prologue to History: The Yahwist As Historian in Genesis By John Van Seters - Hecataeus could trace his genealogy (now lost) 16 generations to Hercules.
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