Damastes of Sigeum explained

Damastes of Sigeum (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: 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]

• Events in Greece
• On the Children and Ancestors of those who took part in the Expedition to Troy (also ascribed by some sources to Polus of Acragas)
• Gazetteer of Peoples and Cities
• On Poets and Sophists

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

Notes and References

1. https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-2008 The Oxford Classical Dictionary, Damastes
2. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0062:entry=damastes-harpers&highlight=damastes Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Damastes
3. https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/damastes-e310290?s.num=42&s.rows=50 Brill, Damastes
4. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/delta/41 Suda, delta, 41
5. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1D*.html Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, Book I, 72