Hecataeus of Miletus
FGrH 1 T 12a — Agathemerus, Geographiae informatio 1,1 Converged + audit-sound
᾽Αναξίμανδρος ὁ Μιλήσιος, ἀκουστὴς Θάλεω, πρῶτος ἐτόλμησε τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐν πίνακι γράψαι. μεθ᾽ ὃν Ἑκαταῖος ὁ Μιλήσιος, ἀνὴρ πολυπλανής, διηκρίβωσεν ὥστε θαυμασθῆναι τὸ πρᾶγμα. Ἑλλάνικος γὰρ ὁ Λέσβιος, ἀνὴρ πολυίστωρ, ἀπλάστως παρέδωκε τὴν ἱστορίαν. εἶτα Δαμάστης ὁ Σιγειεὺς τὰ πλεῖστα ἐκ τῶν Ἑκαταίου μεταγράψας Περίπλουν ἔγραψεν. ἑξῆς Δημόκριτος καὶ Εὐδοξος καὶ ἄλλοι τινὲς Γῆς Περιόδους καὶ Περίπλους ἐπραγματεύσαντο.
Anaximander of Miletus, pupil of Thales, first dared to draw the inhabited world on a tablet. After him Hecataeus of Miletus, a much-travelled man, made it so exact that it became a thing to wonder at. For Hellanicus of Lesbos, a man of much learning, transmitted his account plainly. Then Damastes of Sigeion, transcribing most of it from Hecataeus, wrote a Periplous. Next Demokritos, Eudoxos and certain others composed Circuits of the Earth and Circumnavigations.
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 (Agathemerus, Geogr. informatio) 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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| No substantive differences in the witnessed span — the BNJ base is verbatim against the open-corpus witness (encoding/orthography folded). |
Witness: Agathemerus, Geogr. informatio. Verdict: CONVERGED — Independent codepoint-precise re-collation reproduces the specialist result exactly.
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-t12a.json.