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Hecataeus of Miletus

c. 550–c. 476 BCE · 6th century BCE

Hecataeus of Miletus was an early Greek historian and geographer. His Periodos Ges, a description of the known world arranged as a coastal voyage, and his Genealogies, which treated myths critically, survive only in fragments quoted by later writers. He took part in the deliberations of the Ionian Revolt and was a major source and model for Herodotus.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Hecataeus of Miletus. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/hecataeus-of-miletus
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