Editing Hecataeus of Abdera (section)

==Life==
Hecataeus was generally associated with [[Abdera, Thrace|Abdera]] (Gr: Ἄβδηρα), a [[Greek colonisation|Greek colony]] on the coast of [[Thrace]] near the mouth of the [[Nestos (river)|Néstos River]].

[[Diodorus Siculus]] (fl. 1st century BCE) wrote that Hecataeus visited [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]] in the times of [[Ptolemy I Soter]] (r. 305 – 282 BCE) and composed a history of Egypt. Diodorus comments that many additional Greeks went to and wrote about Egypt in the same period.<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/1C*.html#46.8 1.46.8].</ref> The 10th-century [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] encyclopedia the ''[[Suda]]'' gives him the honorific title "critic [[grammarian]]" and says that he lived in the time of the successors to [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]].<ref>[[Klaus Meister]] "Hecataeus" (2) of Abdera in ''[[Oxford Classical Dictionary]]'' 3rd. ed. [[Oxford]]; [[Oxford University Press]] 1999 p.671</ref>{{Sfn|Dillery|1998|p=255}} According to 3rd-century CE philosopher [[Diogenes Laertius]], Hecataeus was a student of the [[Philosophical skepticism|skeptic]] [[Pyrrho]] (c. 360 – 270 BCE).<ref>{{harvtxt|Diogenes Laertius|1925|loc=[https://www.loebclassics.com/view/diogenes_laertius-lives_eminent_philosophers_book_ix_chapter_11_pyrrho/1925/pb_LCL185.483.xml 9.69 (pp. 482, 482)]}}.</ref>