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Hecataeus of Miletus
Greek historian and geographer (c.550–c.476 BC)
Lived -600–-475, aged 125
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Early Greek historian who mapped the known world and wrote genealogies everyone else was still making up as they went. Basically invented geography before geography was a thing.
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Hecataeus of Miletus, son of Hegesander, was an early Greek historian and geographer.
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