Hecataeus of Abdera

• Hecataeus of Abdera was a Greek Geographer writing in the fourth century BCE.
• Only fragments of his works have survived.

Works

• On the Hyperboreans
  • A Lost Work in which he described Hyperborea as an island in the Ocean no smaller than Sicily, and beyond the land of the Celts, which had a circular Temple, possibly meaning Stonehenge or Avebury.
  • He identified Britannia with Hyperborea.
• Aegyptiaca
  • A Lost Work paraphrased by Diodorus Siculus in Bibliotheca historica Book I, in which he describes the Ramesseum which was the Tomb of Ozymandias.
• The poetry of Hesiod and Homer
  • Referred to by name in the Suda, the the 10th century CE Byzantine encyclopedia, but no fragments have survived.