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Headword:
Hekataios
Adler number: epsilon,360
Translated headword: Hekataios, Hecataeus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Hegesandros; a Milesian. Born in the time of Dareios -- the king who ruled after Kambyses, when Dionysios of Miletos also lived -- in the sixty-fifth Olympiad.[1] Historian.
Herodotos of
Halikarnassos is indebted to him, being more recent; for he was born after him.[2] And Hekataios was a pupil of
Protagoras.[3] He was the first to express history in prose, whereas
Pherekydes [wrote the first prose] composition [sc. of any sort].[4] For the [works] of Agesilaos are spurious.[5]
Greek Original:Hekataios, Hêgêsandrou, Milêsios, gegone kata tous Dareiou chronous tou meta Kambusên basileusantos, hote kai Dionusios ên ho Milêsios, epi tês xe# Olumpiados: historiographos. Hêrodotos de ho Halikarnaseus ôphelêtai toutou neôteros ôn: gegone gar met' auton. kai ên akoustês Prôtagorou ho Hekataios. prôtos de historian pezôs exênenke, sungraphên de Pherekudês: ta gar Agêsilaou notheuetai.
Notes:
OCD(4) 649 '
Hecataeus(1)'; FGrH 1 T1; Perseus Encyclopedia entry at web address 1, with links to
Herodotus and
Pausanias.
[1] 520-516 BCE. For this Dionysios see
delta 1180.
[2] This explanatory phrase is lacking, Adler reports in mss VM.
[3] A chronological impossibility, since
Protagoras lived c.490-420 (
pi 2958). Perhaps Hekataios is being confused here with Hellanikos (as is the case in
epsilon 738), or with Hekataios of
Abdera (
epsilon 359); alternatively, emend '
Protagoras' to
Pythagoras (cf. Adler's apparatus); but see the comments of Jacoby FGrH ad loc.
[4] cf.
phi 214.
[5] Taken to be a mistake, both here and elsewhere (
iota 697,
sigma 1284), for "Akousilaos" (FGrH 2;
alpha 942).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; historiography; philosophy
Translated by: William Hutton on 20 February 2001@17:41:12.
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