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Hecataeus

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Hecataeus (lived 6th-5th century BC)

Greek historian and geographer from Miletus. An intellectual successor to the early Ionian philosophers, Hecataeus wrote what was probably the first historical work of a genealogical kind. He was a major influence on the historian Herodotus.


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266: Those who were descended from Deucalion used to rule over Thessaly as Hecataeus and Hesiod say.
he replied; 'for after my death I shall see those great men, Pythagoras among the philosophers, Hecataeus among historians, Homer among poets, Olympus among musicians.
 
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