Hecataeus
historical figure · 3 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Hecataeus the historian
in the texts
The Histories
Greek historian (logographer) who traced his own descent from a god in the sixteenth generation at Thebes; the Egyptian priests rebutted this using their own statue-count.
Hecataeus the historian was once at
Thebes, where he made a genealogy for himself that had him descended from a god in the sixteenth generation.
Thus, when Hecataeus had traced his descent and claimed that his sixteenth forefather was a god, the priests too traced a line of descent according to the method of their counting;
Stromata
Philosopher credited with holding self-sufficiency to be the end.
and Hecataeus, self-sufficiency;
Sophocles, as Hecataeus, who composed the histories, says in his work On Abraham and the Egyptians, cries out plainly upon the stage:
Orations
Early prose historian who, unlike Homer, wrote his own name into his work.
and that those of double tongue and of mixed race are exceedingly familiar with his verses, though ignorant of much else that is Greek, and some even of those settled very far away — since they say that among the Indians too the poetry of Homer is sung, they having translated it into their own dialect and speech.