Pytheas and Hecataeus: Visions of the North in the Late Fourth Century B.C.

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  • Tomislav Bilić Archaeological museum in Zagreb

Abstract

Though writing in different genres, science vs. utopian fiction, they shared a common background in Greek geographical knowledge, the scientist Pytheas drawing on myth and the fabulist Hecataeus drawing on empirical data.

Author Biography

Tomislav Bilić, Archaeological museum in Zagreb

Head of the Numismatic department

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2020-11-20

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