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Headword:
Damastês
Adler number: delta,41
Translated headword: Damastes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A Sigean, from
Sigeion in the Troad,[1] son of Dioxippos, born before the Peloponnesian War, contemporary of
Herodotus,[2] among the wealthiest of men, historian. He wrote
On Events in Greece,[3]
On the Children and Ancestors of those who took part in the Expedition to Troy,[4] two books,
Gazetteer of Peoples and Cities,
On Poets and Men Noted for their Wisdom; and much else. He was a pupil of Hellanikos.[5]
Damastês, Sigeieus, apo Sigeiou tês Trôados, Diôxippou huios, gegonôs pro tôn Peloponnêsiakôn, sunchronos Hêrodotôi, tôn plousiôtatôn, historikos. gegraphe Peri tôn en Helladi genomenôn, Peri goneôn kai progonôn tôn eis Ilion strateusamenôn biblia b#, Ethnôn katalogon kai poleôn, Peri poiêtôn kai sophistôn: kai alla suchna. gegone de Hellanikou mathêtês.
Notes:
C5 BCE; OCD(4) 411 (by Klaus Meister); FGrH 5.
[1] Barrington Atlas map 56 grid C2.
[2] For whom see
eta 536.
[3] Schwartz (col.2051) believed that it was to this work that
Speusippus referred in a letter to Philip of Macedon written c.342 BCE, in which he named Damastes along with
Herodotus as authorities on the Persian Wars.
Epist. Socrat. 30.4 (Orelli; Hercher) = 28.4 (Kohler).
[4] According to
pi 2170 this work was also attributed to the sophist
Polus of Acragas, a contemporary of Damastes.
[5] For whom see
epsilon 739.
Schwartz, E. Damastes(3) in RE iv.2, cols.2050-2051.
Keywords: biography; chronology; economics; epic; geography; historiography; history; mythology; poetry
Translated by: Tony Natoli on 24 October 1999@01:25:58.
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