Hécatée de Milet
See also: Hécatée
Hécatée de Milet , in Greek old Ἑκαταῖος / Hekataïos (550 - towards 480 av. J. - C.) was one of the very first writers of Histoire and Greek Géographie in prose.
Biography
It was born with Milet towards 550 av. J. - C. Écrivain Ionie N, it wrote “pleasant and interesting stories” in connection with its many voyages. It is also one of the first logographe S. It would have drawn one of the very first charts of the world, the circular representative, the the Mediterranean being located at the center of the grounds surrounded by all shares of the water of a river which it had called “Ocean”.
After long voyages in Egypt, in Asia, it tried to prevent Athens that Darius I {{er}} (the king of the kings , king de Perse) had invaded the Anatolia and was on the point of invading the Greece (Greek cities of Ionie). It disadvised with the Ionie NS revolting against the government of the Perses (see Révolte of Ionie ), knowing well the extent and the resources of the Persian Empire.
But the Athenians did not want to listen to Hécatée de Milet and did not do anything. This last is supposed to be killed in its city during the invasion of this one by Darius, or to be taken as slave.
It seems to have survived the wars against Persians and died towards 476 - 475 av. J. - C.
Work
The results of its considerable voyages in the Persian Empire, in Egypt, Greece and around the coasts of the the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, provide the matter of a chart of the world representing a circular ground punt with a central basin indicating the Mediterranean, and the river Océan running like a river around the unit.
Hécatée writes a Périégèse ( Περίοδος Γῆς / Períodos Gễs or Περιήγησις / Periêgêsis ), “tower of the ground”, to illustrate its chart, whose 300 fragments reached us in the form of quotations. The method of Hécatée consists in describing the littoral initially, then to penetrate the earths to the borders of the inhabited world. It gathers the local legends and consigns its comments on local fauna and the flora, the inhabitants and manners. If one believes of it Porphyre of Tyr, the second book of the Enquêtes of Hérodote must much in Hécatée.
It writes moreover of the Généalogies ( Γενεαλογίαι / Genealoíai ) of the divinities and Greek heroes, which is the first historical test of criticism and the first attempt for émanciper the history of the myths and poetry. The first sentence of the collection declares as follows:
“Hécatée de Milet speaks as follows: “I write these notes as they appear true to me because the accounts of the Greeks are, in my opinion, as many as ridiculous. ”
However, the ambition of Hécatée is not with the height of the result. Indeed, it is generally satisfied with historiciser the myths, or to provide of it a version which it considers more probable. Thus, he judges exaggerated the number of wire allotted, since Eschyle ( Begging Them ) with the king Égyptos - fifty - but is satisfied to fold back it to twenty. He is however the first to establish a true chronology of the pioneering days. Only 35 fragments reached us of the Généalogies .
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