Hecataios
Role: historian · First appears: Book 2 · §139–143
Life events
- Hecataios traced his descent to a god in the sixteenth generation.(Book 2 · §139–143 · 📍 Thebes)
- With: Zeus
- “And formerly when Hecataios the historian was in Thebes, and had traced his descent and connected his family with a god in the sixteenth generation before”
- The priests rejected Hecataios’s divine ancestry and traced their lineage through generations of mortal men.(Book 2 · §139–143)
- “And when Hecataios had traced his descent and connected his family with a god in the sixteenth generation, they traced a descent in opposition to this, besides their numbering, not accepting it from him that a man had been born from a god;”
Book 2 · §139–143
- with Zeus (Hecataios connected his ancestry to a god; the passage does not identify which god.) “And formerly when Hecataios the historian was in Thebes, and had traced his descent and connected his family with a god in the sixteenth generation before, the priests of Zeus did for him much the same as they did for me (though I had not traced my descent).”
Book 5 · §112–125
- parent: Hegesander “Hecataios the son of Hegesander the historian”
Book 5 · §126–126
- with Aristagoras (Hecataios gave counsel to Aristagoras.) “This was the counsel of Hecataios; but Aristagoras was most inclined to go forth to Myrkinos.”
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