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Headword:
Ἑκαταῖος
Adler number: epsilon,360
Translated headword: Hekataios, Hecataeus
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Son of Hegesandros, of Miletos. Born in the time of Dareios (the one who ruled after Kambyses), contemporary of Dionysios of Miletos, in the sixty-fifth Olympiad.[1] Historian.
Herodotos of
Halikarnassos is indebted to him, being more recent (for he was born after him).[2] Hekataios was a pupil of
Protagoras.[3] He was the first to express history in prose, whereas
Pherekydes [wrote the first prose] composition [of any sort]. For the writings of Agesilaos[4] are spurious.
Ἑκαταῖος, Ἡγησάνδρου, Μιλήσιος, γέγονε κατὰ τοὺς Δαρείου χρόνους τοῦ μετὰ Καμβύσην βασιλεύσαντος, ὅτε καὶ Διονύσιος ἦν ὁ Μιλήσιος, ἐπὶ τῆς ξε# Ὀλυμπιάδος: ἱστοριογράφος. Ἡρόδοτος δὲ ὁ Ἁλικαρνασεὺς ὠφέληται τούτου νεώτερος ὤν: γέγονε γὰρ μετ' αὐτόν. καὶ ἦν ἀκουστὴς Πρωταγόρου ὁ Ἑκαταῖος. πρῶτος δὲ ἱστορίαν πεζῶς ἐξήνεγκε, συγγραφὴν δὲ Φερεκύδης: τὰ γὰρ Ἀγησιλάου νοθεύεται.
Notes:
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 omitted in mss V and M.
[3] A chronological impossibility, since
Protagoras lived c.490-420. Possibly Hekataios is confused here with Hellanikos (as is the case in
Epsilon 738), or with Hekataios of
Abdera (
Epsilon 359). See comments of Jacoby FGrH ad loc.
[4] Probably a mistake, both here and elsewhere (
Iota 697,
Sigma 1284), for "Akousilaos" (FGrH 2;
Alpha 942), which is indeed the reading of ms V here.
OCD pp.670-1.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; historiography; philosophy
Translated by: William Hutton on 20 February 2001@17:41:12.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes; added bibliography; cosmetics) on 21 February 2001@04:50:39.
Catharine Roth (Added link.) on 21 February 2001@10:36:08.
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