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Hecataeus of Miletus
Hecataeus of Miletus
c. 550 BCE–c. 476 BCE
Hecataeus of Miletus (c. 550–476 BCE), an early Ionian geographer and logographer whose lost Periēgēsis (Journey Round the World) and Genealogiai pioneered systematic geography and critical prose history before Herodotus.
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Hecataeus of Miletus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Thales· 624 BCE–546 BCE
- Anaximander· 610 BCE–546 BCE
- Anaximenes· 586 BCE–526 BCE
- Hipponax· 575 BCE–535 BCE
- Xenophanes· 570 BCE–478 BCE
- Pythagoras· 570 BCE–495 BCE
- Heraclitus· 540 BCE–480 BCE
- Epicharmus· 540 BCE–450 BCE
- Aeschylus· 525 BCE–456 BCE
- Themistocles· 524 BCE–459 BCE
- Bacchylides· 518 BCE–451 BCE
- Pindar· 518 BCE–438 BCE
- Parmenides· 515 BCE–445 BCE
- Diogenes of Apollonia· 500 BCE–428 BCE
- Anaxagoras· 500 BCE–428 BCE
- Sophocles· 496 BCE–406 BCE
- Empedocles· 495 BCE–435 BCE
- Zeno of Elea· 490 BCE–430 BCE
- Protagoras· 490 BCE–420 BCE
- Herodotus· 484 BCE–425 BCE
- Leucippus· 480 BCE–420 BCE
- Hippias of Elis· 480 BCE–415 BCE
- Antiphon· 480 BCE–411 BCE
- Euripides· 480 BCE–406 BCE
Luminaries & Explorers world
Hindu world
Egyptian world
Scientists
Jewish world
Buddhist world
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