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	miletus
		Situated at the mouth of the Meander in the south of the province of Ionia in Western Anatolia, the ancient city of Miletus was the oldest and the most powerful of the twelve Ionian cities in Asia Minor.
		Miletus is also renowned as the first city to which the principles of modern town-planning were applied.
		Miletus had a special agreement with Croesus, but after the collapse of Lydia in 547-546 B.C. the city came under Persian hegemony.
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	HECATAEUS OF MILETUS - LoveToKnow Article on HECATAEUS OF MILETUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The only certainly genuine work of Hecataeus was the F~verfAoyicu or Io-ropfat, a systematic account of the traditions and mythology of the Greeks.
		He was probably the first to attempt a serious prose history and to employ critical method to distinguish myth from historical fact, though he accepts Homer and the other poets as trustworthy authority.
		though he once at least controverts his statements, is indebted to Hecataeus not only for facts, but also in regard of method and general scheme, but the extent of the debt depends on the genuineness of the rij~ ire pioilos.
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	Hecataeus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Hecataeus was one of the first classical writers to mention the (Click link for more info and facts about Celtic people) Celtic people.
		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.
		Hecataeus, says Herodotus, had seen the same spectacle, after mentioning that he traced his descent, through sixteen generations, from a god.
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		The Ionian Revolts were triggered by the actions of Aristagoras, the tyrant of the Ionian city of Miletus at the end of the 6th century BC and the beginning of the 5th century BC.
		Hecataeus was one of the first classical writers to mention the Celtic people.
		He was probably the first of the logographers to attempt a serious prose history and to employ critical method to distinguish myth from historical fact, though he accepts Homer and other poets as trustworthy authorities.
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	Iranica.com - HECATAEUS OF MILETUS
		Hecataeus was the son of Hegesandros and probably belonged to the old nobility of Miletus.
		Hecataeus advised Aristagoras, who had decided to escape Miletus, to entrench himself on the island of Leros and wait quietly there for future developments in Miletus.
		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.
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	Hecataeus Summary
		Nonetheless, it is known that in his overview of gods and mythologies Hecataeus attempted to provide rational explanations for various tales; in other words, he was applying science and not superstition or prejudice to the study of a culture—his own, at that—and thus he may rightly be called one of the earliest social scientists.
		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.
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	HECATAEUS OF MILETUS (6th-5th century B.C.) - Online Information article about HECATAEUS OF MILETUS (6th-5th century ...
		HECATAEUS OF MILETUS (6th-5th century B.C.), Greek historian, son of Hegesander, flourished during the time of the Persian invasion.
		In 494, when the defeated Ionians were obliged to 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 (Diod.
		The only certainly genuine work of Hecataeus was the FEverjXoyiac or `Iaroplat, a systematic account of the traditions and mythology of the Greeks.
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	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.
		Hecataeus of Miletus says: I write down what I think is true, because the stories told by the Greeks are, in my opinion, ridiculous and countless.
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	Hecataeus of Miletus. Cosmos of the Greek Philosophers
		Regarding the sober way Hecataeus otherwise had of seeing through myth, Pausanias gives an example in his Description of Greece.
		But Hecataeus of Miletus gave a plausible explanation, stating that a terrible serpent lived on Taenarum, and was called the hound of Hades, because any one bitten was bound to die of the poison at once, and it was this snake, he said, that was brought by Heracles to Eurystheus.
		But Homer, who was the first to call the creature brought by Heracles the hound of Hades, did not give it a name or describe it as of manifold form, as he did in the case of the Chimaera.
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		When AristagorasAristagoras was the leader of Miletus in the late 6th century BC and early 5th century BC.
		Aristagoras gained control of the city when Histiaeus was appointed as an advisor to the Persian king Darius I. When Naxos revolted in 502 BC, the Persian overlords of the island asked Aristagoras for help, and he agreed in the assumption that he would be recognized as ruler of the island.
		Hecataeus described the countries and inhabitants of the known world, the account of EgyptThe Arab Republic of Egypt, commonly known as Egypt, (in Arabic: مصر, romanized Miṣr or Maṣr, in Egyptian dialect) is a republic mostly located in north-eastern Africa.
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	KIM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
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	TMTh:: HECATAEUS OF MILETUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	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.
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	Hecataeus of Miletus Biography / Profile
		Born of an old family in Ionia, Hecataeus of Miletus (hehk-uh-TEE-uhs), the son of Hegesander, built an atlas based on Anaximander’s map of the world using poetry, mythology, and his own investigations of Greek and Persian trade routes.
		As a prominent member of Miletus’s insurgent political faction and a foremost proponent of sea power, he advised Histiaeus of Miletus’s rebel kinsman Aristagoras during the disastrous Ionian Revolt of 499-494 b.c.e.
		Hecataeus was the most significant of the early Ionian narrators, preeminent in the Western transition from poetry to prose, from mythology to rationalism, from genealogy to chronology, from ethnocentrism to cosmopolitanism, and from Olympian creationism to secular enquiry.
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	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.
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	FOCUS on MILETUS
		he remains of the city of Miletus is approximately 40 km to the south of Soke (a towncenter of Aydin City).
		According to Homer, as he mentioned in IIliad, Miletus was founded by Carians.
		he great historian Herodotus was saying that the Ionians under the leadership of Neilos, conquered Miletus, whose inhabitants were Carians and Cretans, in the 11th century.
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	Hecataeus Of Miletus -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		During the time of the Persian invasion, he tried to dissuade the Ionians from revolt against Persia, and in 494, when they were obliged to sue for terms, he was one of the ambassadors to the Persian satrap, whom he persuaded to restore the constitution of the Ionic cities.
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		But these predecessors, for all their charm, wrote either chronicles of local events, of one city or another, covering a great length of time, or comprehensive accounts of travel over a large part of the known world, none of them...
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	Ethics of Greek Politics and Wars 500-360 BC by Sanderson Beck
		Histaeus persuaded Darius to send him to Sardis to help; but suspected of treachery by Artaphernes, he fled from there to Chios, where he lied that the reason he urged the revolt was because Darius intended to transfer Ionians to Phoenicia; his messengers to friends in Sardis were intercepted, and their recipients were executed.
		Wounded in attempting to return to Miletus, Histaeus gained some ships at Lesbos and engaged in piracy at Byzantium until he was captured and crucified by Artaphernes.
		By the end of the Peloponnesian War both Sparta and Athens were making agreements with Persia to recognize their Greek holdings in Asia, a reversal of the original purpose of the Delian league, whose growing Athenian power had brought on the Peloponnesian War in the first place.
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	Greek Demonstration: The Return of Odysseus and the Elements of Euclid
		As Herodotus recounts, the city of Miletus on Samos is threatened by advances by the Persians, and Aristagoras, Prince of Miletus, sails off to Sparta to implore the tyrant Cleomenes to abandon his Pelopenesian campaign against the Messenians and to join in with the Miletians in fighting back the Persians on Asia minor.
		Hecataeus' map preserves an Ionic tradition of cartography which seems to have been originated by Anaximander of Miletus, a contemporary and compatriot of Thales.
		The first of these roots is to be found in the cosmologies and geographies of early Ionians represented by Anaximander and Thales in the middle of the sixth century, and Hecataeus of Miletus in the early years of the fifth.
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	Arnaldo Momigliano and the human sources of history by Donald Kagan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
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	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.
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	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.
		Charon of Lampsacus, Xanthus of Lydia, and Dionysius of Miletus all wrote histories of their respective areas that Herodotus could have drawn on, but his dependence on them is unclear.
		Hecataeus provides an alternate version of the expulsion of the Pelasgians from Attica (vi.137).
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	An Abridged Histroy of Maps
		The first person credited with drawing the first map was Anaximander of Miletus, who lived between 610 to 547 BC.
		Anaximander worked as both a craftsman and philosopher, as indeed most of the earlier geographers during this period did (Harley and Woodward 134).
		Anaximander's map was improved 50 years later when Hecataeus, also of Miletus, constructed the first circuit of the Earth, known as the 'periodos ges' (Harley and Woodward 135).
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	Greek and Hellenic Philosophy, Science and Humanities: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Thales of Miletus (624-546) -celebrated for his mathematical attainments, as well as for a theory of the material cause of the universe- 'all things are water'
		Hecataeus of Miletus: one of the founders of geographical science; wrote in prose:Genealogies
		Scylax of Caryanda: a Carian Greek employed by Darius to survey the course of the Indus who published an account of his expedition; he also wrote a work of contemporary history which centered around his fellowcountryman Heracleides of Mylasae, who deserted the Persians and helped the Greeks against the invasion of Xerxes.
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	Thucydides' Peloponnesian War
		Miletus, the home of the Milesian philosophers, was one of the principal cities of Ionia.
		Hecataeus refused to accept gullibly the fantastic stories which had been handed down from time immemorial.
		In the sixth century B.C. the Greeks in Asia Minor had fallen under the control of the Lydian king Croesus, and later, when Croesus himself was defeated by the Persian King Cyrus, were forced to become part of the Persian Empire.
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