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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.

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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions 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.

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