Mnaseas de Patara (Greek Μνασέας ὁ Πατρεύς) was a Greek historian and geographer from Patara (Lycia) who lived about 200 BC. C. He was a disciple of Eratosthenes and traveled through Asia, Africa and Europe.
He was the author of several works that lacked historicist criteria and were full of fabulous stories. Only some fragments of his Periegesis and others from his Collection of the oracles of Delphi are preserved from this historian.
Mnaseas introduced, among others, the legend that a donkey's head was worshiped in the Temple of Jerusalem, a legend that spread among all later Alexandrian authors.
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