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	Iranica.com - HECATAEUS OF MILETUS
		Hecataeus was the son of Hegesandros and probably belonged to the old nobility of Miletus.
		After the failure of the rebellion, Hecataeus is said to have interceded with Artaphrene@s (q.v.), the great king's brother and the satrap of Sardis since 540 B.C.E., for lenient treatment of the Ionians (Diodorus 10.25.4).
		Whether Hecataeus was an immediate pupil of the philosopher Anaximander of Miletus is an open question, but, in any case, he probably improved the latter's world-map and supplemented it with narrative accounts of the earth (ca.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v12f1/v12f1092.html (749 words)

	Hecataeus - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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 other known work of Hecataeus was the Genealogiai, a rationally systematized account of the traditions and mythology 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.
		Hecataeus, says Herodotus, had seen the same spectacle, after mentioning that he traced his descent, through sixteen generations, from a god.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /hecataeus.htm (689 words)

	HECATAEUS VAN MILETE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hecataeus reisde rond in Egypte, het Perzische Rijk en in Scythië.
		Hecataeus speelde ook een rol in de plaatstelijke politiek.
		Hij probeerde Aristagoras ervan te weerhouden een opstand van de Ionische kust tegen het Perzisch gezag te organiseren en na de nederlaag van de Ioniërs was hij de onderhandelaar in in 494 v.
	www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/H/Hecataeus_van_Milete (223 words)

	Hecataeus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hecataeus was one of the first classical writers to mention the (Click link for more info and facts about Celtic people) Celtic people.
		Some have credited Hecataeus with a work entitled Ges Periodos ("Travels round the Earth" or "World Survey'), in two books each organized in the manner of a (Click link for more info and facts about periplus) periplus, a point-to-point coastal survey.
		Hecataeus' work, especially the Genealogiai, shows a marked scepticism, opening with "Hecataeus of Miletus thus speaks: I write what I deem true; for the stories of the Greeks are manifold and seem to me ridiculous.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/hecataeus.htm (513 words)

	Hecataeus
		We know hardly anything about Hecataeus' life, although he seems to have traveled to countries like Egypt, which was visited by not a few Greeks in the company of the Persian king Cambyses, who conquered the ancient country of the Nile in 525.
		This reference is extremely important, because it proves that Hecataeus had -direct or undirect- access to the travel log of the Carthaginian voyager Hanno, who had visited this region.
		We may think that Hecataeus was being critical about stories that were too fanciful to be critical about - and perhaps we are right, but on the other hand: Hecataeus was one of the first scholars to skeptically research the ancient tales.
	www.livius.org /he-hg/hecataeus/hecataeus.htm (1114 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hecataeus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hecataeus was one of the first classical writers to mention the Celtic people.
		One on Europe, is essentially a periplus of the Mediterranean, describing each region in turn, reaching as far north as Scythia.
		Unlike Xenophanes, he did not criticize the myths on their own terms; his disbelief rather stems from his broad exposure to the many contradictory mythologies he encountered in his travels.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hecataeus (1454 words)

	Hecataeus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 494 BC, when the defeated Ionians were obligedto sue for terms, he was one of the ambassadors to the Persian satrap Artaphernes, whom he persuaded to restore the constitution of the Ionic cities(Diodorus Siculus.
		The other known work of Hecataeus was the Genealogiai, a rationally systematized account of the traditions and mythology 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.
		He was probably the first to attempt a serious prose history and to employ critical method to distinguish myth from historicalfact, though he accepts Homer and other poets as trustworthy authorities.
	www.therfcc.org /hecataeus-144875.html (369 words)

	CLST 2003 - Early Celtic History
		Hecataeus describes Massalia as "having been founded in the land of the Ligurians near the land of the Celts" (Merriman, 1987: p.
		Furthermore, he views the writings of Hecataeus (Herodotus' mentor and thus possibly the source of at least some of Herodotus' writings) as reliable on the proviso the writings have been correctly reported in antiquity.
		On the issue of Herodotus' geographical positioning of the Danube, while thought flawed in the modern context (with the help of aerial mapping etc.), is consistent with geographical mapping in general for that time.
	www.angelfire.com /bc/henryknox/celts.htm (3647 words)

	Notebook
		These narratives were bald and uncritical records of local traditions relating to the remote or mythical past generally concerned with the legendary foundations of cities or the genealogies of gods and heroes.
		The outstanding logographoi were Cadmus of Miletus, Hecataeus of Miletus and Hellanicus of Mitylene.
		Hecataeus is the foremost of these of whose works a very few fragments have survived.
	www.noteaccess.com /APPROACHES/AGW/Historians.htm (926 words)

	History of GREEK SCIENCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For Hecataeus it is the Aegean Sea, on the east coast of which stands Miletus.
		Hecataeus is at the end of a pioneering century of Greek science in Miletus, which lies to the east of mainland Greece.
		At the same period a new centre of Greek scientific speculation is being developed far to the west, in the Pythagorean tradition of southern Italy.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa32 (694 words)

	KIM
		Hecataeus’ opening words&emdash;“I write the things that seem true to me; for the stories of the Greeks, as they appear to me, are numerous and ridiculous”(FGrH 1 F 1)&emdash;are customarily taken to represent one of the earliest instances of the Greek skeptical attitude toward their tradition.
		Thus Hecataeus is supposed to have simply reduced the myths to a reality that accorded with ‘rational’ standards, ushering in a technique that was to have a long heritage in antiquity: scholars point to examples in Herodotus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, etc., not to mention Euripides or Apollonius of Rhodes.
		Hecataeus, however, could only apply his critical standard under certain circumstances: occasionally he simply reduces a clear exaggeration, but more often he only proceeds when he possesses additional information that suggests a possible path to a more correct version.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/99mtg/abstracts/KIM.html (591 words)

	Celtica
		Hecataeus elsewhere mentions a Celtic town called Nyrax, and this place seems best to be identified with Noreia in the ancient region of Styria in Austria.
		This is a misfortune for his account of peoples of whom he has first hand knowledge, especially the Scythians, has been shown, with the aid of archaeology to be of great value.
		What does seem important is that both he and Hecataeus could already mention the Celts to the Greeks without any need of explanation.
	cornellia.fws1.com /new_page_9.htm (764 words)

	Library7
		Manethon is the well-known Egyptian high priest of Heliopolis, well versed in the lore of his native land, whom Ptolemy I consulted on the adoption of Sarapis as the official deity for the new dynasty.
		As for Hecataeus, he was one of the Greek writers invited by Ptolemy I to reside in the country and write its history.
		We need not take this criticism too literally since Hecataeus adopted much of Heridotus' account in its main outline while making his own contributions only in certain matters of detail which were probably derived from the sacred records, as well as from his own personal observations.
	www.greece.org /alexandria/library/library7.htm (482 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.12.09
		The book starts with an analysis of the genuine Hecataeus preserved in Diodorus/Photius and arrives at the conclusion that, far from being an idealized account, 'the excursus is, by and large, an interpretatio Graca of Jewish history and life' (43).
		An analysis of the Mosollamus story, presented as an eye-witness account by Hecataeus, firmly concludes that its author was not acquainted with Greek augural lore and that its entire stance cannot be harmonized with what we know about the genuine Hecataeus, or, in fact, any educated Greek writer.
		Having thus disposed of the ascription to Hecataeus, it remains to reveal the true date, authorship and purpose of the work.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1997/97.12.09.html (851 words)

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		Pre-Columbian map makers indicated the edge of the world with vague warnings; either you fell off the edge into an infinite void, or monsters lurked beyond the pale of the known world.
		Hecataeus wrote the first history and geography book in Western civilization; Periegesis, meaning 'Guide Round,' or Periodos Ges, 'Journey Round the World' or 'General Survey of the inhabited world as known at that time.' Hecataeus was far more that a traveler, historian and geographer, he was also the first cultural anthropologist.
		The thing about Hecataeus is that he wandered around the earth and was wonder struck.
	www.beachnet.com /~apeiron/PhotoGallery_Perieg.html (428 words)

	Demetrius On Style, tr. W. Rhys Roberts, at Peitho's Web
		Sometimes a member forms a complete sentence in itself, as for example Hecataeus opens his 'History' with the words 'Hecataeus of Miletus thus relates' (Hecat.
		The second style bears the name of `disconnected,' inasmuch as the members into which it is divided are not closely united.
		Hecataeus is an example; and so for the most part is Herodotus, and the older writers in general.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/demetrius/demet1.htm (3126 words)

	TMTh:: HECATAEUS OF MILETUS
		Held to be the "father of geography", Hecataeus was one of the first truly scientific geographers.
		While earlier geographers had been content to determine distances by measuring the lengths of roads and coasts, which of course are never straight lines, Hecataeus tried to achieve greater accuracy by locating places in relation to the points of the compass and the constellations.
		Herodotus frequently used Hecataeus as a source, and he is cited by Strabo, Herodotus and Stephen of Byzantium, whose works preserve fragments of his writings.
	www.tmth.edu.gr /en/aet/3/50.html (255 words)

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		Hecataeus of Miletus who was active at the end of the fifth century is best known as the author of the map of the world (Periodos Ges) to which Herodotus alludes in book four of his Histories:
		I am amused to see those many who have drawn maps of the world and not a one of them making a reasonable appearance of it.
		Rather than organize his map according to particular information collected empirically in the course of these travels, he chose to construct it around pure geometrical objects like the circle and equal areas, and in so doing betrayed a conviction that such objects provided a surer foundation for geography than the evidence of the senses.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/GeographyFacts.htm (1018 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Eumenes by Plutarch
		But being visited by Hecataeus, the tyrant of the Cardians, and requested rather to relieve Antipater and the Macedonians that were besieged in Lamia, he resolved upon that expedition, inviting Eumenes to a share in it, and endeavouring to reconcile him to Hecataeus.
		For there was an hereditary feud between them, arising out of political differences, and Eumenes had more than once been known to denounce Hecataeus as a tyrant, and to exhort Alexander to restore the Cardians their liberty.
		Leonnatus so far believed as to impart to Eumenes his whole design, which, as he had pretended and given out, was to aid Antipater, but in truth was to seize the kingdom of Macedon; and he showed him letters from Cleopatra, in which, it appeared, she invited him to Pella, with promises to marry him.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/eumenes.html (3775 words)

	Arnaldo Momigliano and the human sources of history by Donald Kagan
		It led him to questioning and research and the reasoned quest for accurate knowledge and understanding—that is, toward history.
		It is not Hecataeus, however, whom we call the father of history but Herodotus, and Momigliano explains why.
		Hecataeus appears to have confined himself to the comparison and reasoned criticism of what was thought to be known.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/10/mar92/kagan.htm (1982 words)

	The edges of the earth in Greek and Roman thought
		The map of Hecataeus of Miletus (c.550-c.490) can be seen as the first attempt to break away from the schematic approach described above.
		Moreover, Hecataeus still considered the earth to be a flat dish with clearly defined edges.
		The same can be said about the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus (c.480-c.429), although he had a far better understanding of the shape of the world and may be called the father of geography.
	www.livius.org /ea-eh/edges/edges02.html (1213 words)

	Thucydides' Peloponnesian War
		Hecataeus refused to accept gullibly the fantastic stories which had been handed down from time immemorial.
		He was born in the Greek city of Halicarnassus in south-west Asia Minor, but left because of political troubles there and lived for a while on the Ionian island of Samos, in Athens, and finally in Thurii, an Athenian colony in southern Italy.
		For example, he shows a knowledge of Homer and Hesiod and of the logographers, especially Hecataeus, of whom he is very critical.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classics/dunkle/studyguide/thucydes.htm (5139 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.06.02
		Thus, despite comments from Herodotus and Thucydides identifying and disparaging (respectively) muthoi in "historical writing", the works of authors such as Hecataeus and Hellanicus were probably referred to as historia or logoi on a regular basis and were not considered to be crossing generic boundaries between myth and history.
		The most substantial remains are those of Epimenides of Crete, Hecataeus of Miletus, Hellanicus of Lesbos, and Pherecydes of Athens.
		Additionally, the life of Hecataeus is perhaps better attested than those of most of the other authors in this collection, as Herodotus refers to Hecataeus several times, including an account of his participation in the Ionian revolt.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2002/2002-06-02.html (872 words)

	Re: orion Greek sources on Essenes
		The latter material doesn't derive from either Hecataeus or > Posidonius [....]" > If I am not mistaken, RG's posts implied that his analysis agreed > with that of B. Bar-Kochva...
		The excursus, which was taken from Posidonius of Apamea, is a consistent adaptation (frequently also a deliberate reversal), following Hecataeus step by step.
		Hecataeus's information is reshaped in the spirit of middle Stoa." This completely agrees with my statement that the Posidonius fragment at Strabo 16.2.35-39 is simply Stoicized Hecataeus.
	orion.mscc.huji.ac.il /orion/archives/1998a/msg00336.html (461 words)

	Herodotus: Father of History, Father of Lies
		Herodotus himself mentions the work of Hecataeus of Miletus,<55> who wrote two books of historical geography and was a major source in Herodotus' writings on Egypt.
		While we can show that Herodotus had a familiarity with Hecataeus, there are several other sources which Herodotus was probably familiar with but which we cannot identify.
		Hecataeus provides an alternate version of the expulsion of the Pelasgians from Attica (vi.137).
	www.loyno.edu /history/journal/1998-9/Pipes.htm (6647 words)

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