TurkeyOne of the first Greeks to write down the world as a map and a story, rather than leave it to poets and myth—centuries before Herodotus, he was already counting coastlines and calling out Homer's exaggerations.
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Hecataeus, son of Hegesander, was born around 550 BC in Miletus, the prosperous Greek city on the Ionian coast that had already produced philosophers who tried to explain the world through reason rather than gods. He turned that same cool eye to geography and the past, writing prose accounts of the lands around the Mediterranean and attempting to trace genealogies and events without leaning on divine intervention. His work—now lost except in fragments quoted by later writers—represented an early split: history and geography as disciplines you could investigate and record, not just sing about.…
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