Damastes of Sigeum (Ancient Greek: Δαμάστης) was a Greek geographer and historian in the 5th century BC from Sigeum.[1] [2]

He was probably a pupil of Hellanicus of Lesbos. With the exception of a few fragments, his works do not survive.[3]

Suda wrote that he had many works including the:[4]

He is mentioned in Dionysius of Halicarnassus work Roman Antiquities.[5]

References

  1. ^ The Oxford Classical Dictionary, Damastes
  2. ^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Damastes
  3. ^ Brill, Damastes
  4. ^ Suda, delta, 41
  5. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, Book I, 72
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