About Damastes of Sigeum
Damastes of Sigeum was a historian, geographer and logographer.
Damastes of Sigeum was a Greek geographer and historian in the 5th century BC from Sigeum.
He was probably a pupil of Hellanicus of Lesbos. With the exception of a few fragments, his works did not survive.
Suda wrote that he had many works including the: Events in Greece On the Children and Ancestors of those who took part in the Expedition to Troy (also ascribed by some sources to Polus of Acragas) Gazetteer of Peoples and Cities On Poets and Sophists
He is mentioned in Dionysius of Halicarnassus work Roman Antiquities.
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Who was Damastes of Sigeum?
ancient Greek historian
When was Damastes of Sigeum born?
Damastes of Sigeum was born in Sigeion.
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Damastes of Sigeum was a historian, geographer and logographer.
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