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Thucydides (i. 97), who says that he treated the events of the years 480–431 briefly and superficially, and with little regard to chronological sequence: Phoronis, chiefly genealogical, with See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short notices of events from the times of Phorcneus the Argive " first See also:

man " to. the return of the See also:

HERACLIDAE

Heraclidae; Troica and Persica, histories of See also:

Troy and See also:

PERSIA

Persia. Hellanicus marks a real step in the development of historiography. He transcended the narrow See also:

LOCAL

local limits of the older logographers, and was not content to repeat the traditions that had gained See also:

general acceptation through the poets. He tried to give the traditions as they were locally current, and availed himself of the few See also:

NATIONAL

national or priestly registers that presented something like contemporary See also:

REGISTRATION

registration. He endeavoured to See also:

lay the See also:

FOUNDATIONS

foundations of a scientific See also:

CHRONOLOGY (Gr. xpovo?oyfa, computation of time, xp6vos)

chronology, based primarily on the list of the Argive priestesses of Hera, and secondarily on genealogies, lists of magistrates (e.g. the archons at See also:

Athens), and See also:

ORIENTAL

Oriental See also:

DATES

dates, in See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of the old reckoning by generations. But his materials were insufficient and he often had recourse to the older methods. On See also:

account of his deviations from See also:

COMMON

common tradition, Hellanicus is often called an untrustworthy writer by the ancients themselves, and it is a curious fact that he appears to have made no systematic use of the many See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions which were ready to See also:

hand. See also:

Dionysius of See also:

HALICARNASSUS (mod. Budrum)

Halicarnassus censures him for arranging his history, not according to the natural connexion of events, but according to the locality or the nation he was describing; and undoubtedly he never, like his contemporary See also:

HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus, See also:

rose to the conception of a single current of events wider than the local distinction of See also:

RACE

race.

His See also:

style, like that of the older logographers, was dry and bald: Fragments in See also:

Miller, Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum, i. and iv.; see among older works L. See also:

Preller, De Hellanico Lesbio historico (184o); See also:

MARE

Mare, History of Greek Literature, iv.; See also:

LATE

late See also:

criticism in H. Kullmer, " Hellanikos " in Jahrbucher See also:

FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur klass. Philologie (Supplementband, See also:

XXVII

xxvii. 455 sqq.) (1902), which contains new edition and arrangement of fragments; C. F. See also:

Lehmann-See also:

HAUPT, MORITZ (1808—1874)

Haupt, " Hellanikos, Herodot, Thukydides," in Klio vi. 127 sqq. (1906); J. B. See also:

Bury, See also:

Ancient Greek Historians (1909), pp. 27 sqq.

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