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  • 3 - Hekataios of Miletos

  • from Part I - Archaic Period
  • D. Graham J. Shipley, University of Leicester
  • Book:
    Geographers of the Ancient Greek World
    Published online:
    25 March 2024
    Print publication:
    18 April 2024, pp 127-146

  • Summary

    This chapter presents new, annotated translations of testimonia and fragments of Hekataios of Miletos (late 6th–early 5th century BC), selected with a focus on geographical material and arranged as 111 extracts. The chapter introduction situates him within the context of the ‘Ionian Renaissance’, and identifies a determination to systematize the world and its place in the cosmos, as well as to rectify the mistakes of one’s predecessors. Characteristic of his two books is an interest in inland areas, not just coasts, and in a wide span of Europe and Asia–apparently based on personal observations–as well as a response to Homeric geography. His depth of coverage, as well as the choice of a clockwise ‘tour’ beginning in the western Mediterranean, were influential upon his successors.