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-600–-474 · Greek historian and geographer (c.550–c.476 BC)

Also known as: Hekataios von Milet, Hecataeus, Hecatæus of Miletus, Гекатей Милетский, هكتيوس الملطي, 헤카타이오스

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Known works

  • I quattro grandi milesi
  • Fragmenta
  • Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum Hecataei,Charonis... Apollodori Bibliotheca cum fragmentis
  • Fragmenta: Scylacis Caryandensis
  • Hecataei Milesii fragmenta