# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dicaearchus
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:43:13.300Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dicaearchus"
name: "Dicaearchus"
slug: "dicaearchus"
description: "Dicaearchus of Messana, also written Dikaiarchos, was a Greek philosopher, geographer and author. Dicaearchus was a student of Aristotle in the Lyceum. Very little of his work remains extant. He wrote on geography and the history of Greece, of which his most important work was his Life of Greece. Although modern scholars often consider him a pioneer in the field of cartography, this is based on a misinterpretation of a reference in Cicero to Dicaearchus's tabulae, which does not refer to any maps made by Dicaearchus but is a pun on account books and refers to Dicaearchus's Descent into the Sanctuary of Trophonius. He also wrote books on ancient Greek poets, philosophy and politics."
tagline: "4th-century BC Greek philosopher and geographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dicearco_di_Messina.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-350"
deathDate: "-285"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.99
  momentum:             1.578947368421053
  historical:           21.036432
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dicearco"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "ديكيارخوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dikearxus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "দিকাইয়ারখোস"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dicearc de Messana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dikaiarchos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Δικαίαρχος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dicaearchus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dicearco de Mesina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dic%C3%A9arque"
    title: "Dicéarque"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%A1"
    title: "דיקאיארכוס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dikearh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikaiarkhosz"
    title: "Dikaiarkhosz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikaiarkhos"
    title: "Dikaiarkhos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicearco"
    title: "Dicearco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "디카이아르코스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dikaiarkhos"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicearch_z_Messyny"
    title: "Dicearch z Messyny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicearco"
    title: "Dicearco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%85"
    title: "Дикеарх"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikearh"
    title: "Dikearh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352621"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump