Damastes of Sigeum

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]

• 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]

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