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ATTHIS (an adjective meaning " Attic ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 882 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ATTHIS (an See also:adjective meaning " See also:Attic ") , the name given to a monograph or See also:special See also:treatise on the religious and See also:political See also:history, antiquities and See also:topography of See also:Attica and See also:Athens. During the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C., a class of writers arose, who, making these subjects their particular study, were called atthidographi, or compilers of atthides. The first of 'these was Clidemus or Clitodemus (about 378 B.c.); the last, Ister of See also:Cyrene (died 212 B.c.); the most important was See also:Philochorus (first See also:half of the 3rd See also:century B.c.), of whose See also:work considerable fragments have been preserved. The names of the other atthidographi known to us are Phanodemus, Demon, See also:Androtion, See also:Andron, See also:Melanthius. They laid no claim to See also:literary skill; their See also:style was monotonous and soon became wearisome. They were in fact chroniclers or annalists—not historians. Their only See also:object was to set down, in See also:plain and See also:simple See also:language, all that seemed worthy of See also:note in reference to the legends, history, constitution, See also:religion and See also:civilization of Attica. They followed the See also:order of the olympiads and archons, and their work was supported by the authority of See also:original documents, monuments and See also:inscriptions. Their writings were much used by historians, as well as by the scholiasts and grammarians.

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