The shadow of Hecataeus,magni nominis umbraif ever there was one, constantly obstructs our attempts to assess and understand Herodotus' principles, objectives and achievements. Perplexing and elusive as the details of Hecataeus' work may be, no-one disputes his importance as an intermediary between catalogue-poetry such as we associate with Hesiod, with its clear subordination of geography to genealogy, and the more sophisticated method of synthesising knowledge about theoikoumenedemonstrated by Herodotus; some have even argued that the great Milesian has a better claim than Herodotus to the title ofpater historiae.
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