Damastes of Sigeum () was a Greek geographer and historian in the 5th century BC from Sigeum.The Oxford Classical Dictionary, Damastes Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Damastes
He was probably a pupil of Hellanicus of Lesbos. With the exception of a few fragments, his works did not survive.Brill, Damastes
Suda wrote that he had many works including the:Suda, delta, 41 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.Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, Book I, 72
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