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It was an easy enough thing for him to ascertain, actually.

See, Hecatius, like most Greeks of the time, possessed a detailed genealogical record of his family tree.

It reached from him at the very leafy tip all the way back to the roots,

where his familial line began with one of the Greek gods.

I don't know which one, let's just say Hephaestus.

For those Greeks who could trace their lineage back to a god,

it was, as you might imagine, a real point of pride.

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