Hecataeus of Miletus
FGrH 1 T 11b — Strabo, Geographica 1.1.11 Converged + audit-sound
νυνὶ δὲ ὅτι μὲν ῞Ομηρος τῆς γεωγραφίας ἦρξεν, ἀρκείτω τὰ λεχθέντα. φανεροὶ δὲ καὶ οἱ ἐπακολουθήσαντες αὐτῶι ἄνδρες ἀξιόλογοι καὶ οἰκεῖοι φιλοσοφίας, ὧν τοὺς πρώτους μεθ᾽ ῞Ομηρον δύο φησὶν ᾽Ερατοσθένης, ᾽Αναξίμανδρόν τε, Θαλοῦ γεγονότα γνώριμον καὶ πολίτην, καὶ Ἑκαταῖον τὸν Μιλήσιον· τὸν μὲν οὖν ἐκδοῦναι πρῶτον γεωγραφικὸν πίνακα, τὸν δὲ Ἑκαταῖον καταλιπεῖν γράμμα, πιστούμενον ἐκείνου εἶναι ἐκ τῆς ἄλλης αὐτοῦ γραφῆς.
Let what has been said suffice to show that Homer began geography. Those who succeeded him too are clearly notable men, akin to philosophy; Eratosthenes says the first two after Homer were Anaximander, the acquaintance and fellow citizen of Thales, and Hecataeus of Miletus. The former was the first to publish a geographical map, while Hecataeus left a drawing, believed to be his by inference from the rest of his writing.
Apparatus — BNJ base vs open-corpus witness
Base text after Brill’s New Jacoby / Jacoby (FGrH). The apparatus records differences against the open-corpus witness (Scaife/Perseus) within the overlapping span; encoding and orthography are folded. Collation codepoint-verified and adversarially audited (2026-06-26).
| Lemma / locus | BNJ base | Witness | Type | Note |
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| — | …᾽Αναξίμανδρόν τε, Θαλοῦ… | Perseus (tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc2:1.1.11) | punctuation | BNJ-based target reads a comma after τε (᾽Αναξίμανδρόν τε,); Perseus omits the comma (Ἀναξίμανδρόν τε Θαλοῦ). Substantive punctuation difference; no change to wording or word-division. |
| — | …καὶ πολίτην, καὶ ῾Εκαταῖον… | Perseus (tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc2:1.1.11) | punctuation | BNJ-based target reads a comma after πολίτην (πολίτην, καὶ); Perseus omits the comma (πολίτην καὶ). Substantive punctuation difference; wording identical. |
Witness: Scaife/Perseus. Verdict: CONVERGED (apparatus complete, publishable as BNJ-based).
Open-corpus witness family: urn:cts:greekLit. This is a BNJ/Jacoby-based edition with an open-corpus apparatus, not a verbatim copy of the witness edition. Source data: explorers/_build/editions/ecoed-hecat-fgrh1-t11b.json.