Hecataeus of Abdera

Hecataeus of Abdera (late 4th-early 3rd century BCE) was a Greek historian and philosopher active in the early Ptolemaic period in Egypt. He wrote a work on Egypt that idealized its institutions and influenced later Greek ethnography, and he is also reported to have written about the Jewish people, making him an important early Greek source on both subjects. His works survive only in fragments and later quotations.