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A Dictionary of Scientists

Jerry Brotton,  A History of the World in Twelve Maps

Chambers Biographical Dictionary

W. A. Heidel, Hecataeus and Xenophanes,  The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 64, No. 3 (1943), pp. 257-277

Simon Hornblower and Tony Spawforth (eds.) Who's Who in the Classical World

Stephanie West, Herodotus' Portrait of Hecataeus;

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