HECATAEUS — I. HECATAEUS Historicus Milesius, fil. Aegesandri, Protagorae auditor, Olymp. 64. qui primus solutâ orarione Historiam condidit. De reliquis Hecataeis vide Voss. de Hist. Gr. l. 1. c. 1. et 10. et l. 4. c. 3. Nic Lloyd. Addo de priore, quod… … Hofmann J. Lexicon universale
HECATAEUS OF ABDERA° — (fourth century B.C.E.), Greek historian and ethnographer. He evidently visited Jerusalem and was the first pagan who wrote extensively on the history of the Jews, incorporating it into his account of Egypt. A summary of it has been preserved in… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Hecataeus of Miletus — (c. 550 ndash;c. 476 BC), named after the Greek goddess Hecate, was a Greek philosopher of a wealthy family. He flourished during the time of the Persian invasion. After having travelled extensively, he settled in his native city, where he… … Wikipedia
Hecataeus of Abdera — See Hecataeus of Miletus for the earlier historian. Hecataeus of Abdera (or of Teos) was a Greek historian and sceptic philosopher who flourished in the 4th century BC.Diogenes Laertius (ix.61) relates that he was a student of Pyrrho, along with… … Wikipedia
Hecataeus (crater) — lunar crater data caption=Hecataeus (center) and Humboldt (lower right) from Apollo 15. NASA photo . latitude=21.8 N or S=S longitude=79.4 E or W=E diameter=167 km depth= Unknown colong=283 eponym=Hecataeus of MiletusHecataeus is a large lunar… … Wikipedia
Hecataeus of Miletus — ▪ Greek author flourished early 5th century BC, Ionia [now in Turkey] groundbreaking Greek author of an early history (historiography) and geography. When the Persian Empire ruled Asia Minor, Hecataeus tried to dissuade the Ionians from revolt … Universalium
Hecataeus — see Diodorus Siculus. Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt by Rosalie and Antony E. David … Ancient Egypt
ГЕКАТЕЙ — • Hecataeus, Έκαται̃ος, 1. сын Гегесандра, логограф, принадлежал к знатному милетскому роду (Hdt. 2, 143), родился, вероятно, в 549 г. до Р. X., умер скоро после битвы при Платеях. Еще до начала своей политической деятельности… … Реальный словарь классических древностей
Moses — For other uses, see Moses (disambiguation). Moses Moses … Wikipedia
ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… … Universalium