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LOGOGRAPHI (X&yos, ypiic/w, writers of See also:prose histories or tales) , the name given by See also:modern scholars to the See also:Greek historiographers before See also:Herodotus.l See also:Thucydides, however, applies the See also:term to all his own predecessors, and it is therefore usual to make a distinction between the older and the younger logographers. Their representatives, with one exception, came from See also:Ionia and its islands, which from their position were most favour-ably situated for the acquisition of knowledge concerning the distant countries of See also:East and See also:West. They wrote in the Ionic See also:dialect, in what was called the unperiodic See also:style, and preserved the poetic See also:character of their epic See also:model. Their See also:criticism amounts to nothing more than a crude See also:attempt to rationalize the current legends and traditions connected with the See also:founding of cities, the genealogies of ruling families, and the See also:manners and customs of individual peoples. Of scientific criticism there is no trace whatever. The first of these historians was probably See also:Cadmus of See also:Miletus (who lived, if at all, in the See also:early See also:part of the 6th See also:century), the earliest writer of prose, author of a See also:work on the founding of his native See also:city and the colonization of Ionia (so Suidas); Pherecydes of Leros, who died about 400, is generally considered the last. Mention may also be made of the following: Hecataeus of Miletus (550–476); Acusilaus of See also:Argos,2 who paraphrased in prose (correcting the tradition where it seemed necessary) the genealogical See also:works of See also:Hesiod in the Ionic dialect; he See also:con-fined his See also:attention to the prehistoric See also:period, and made no attempt at a real See also:history; See also:Charon of See also:Lampsacus (c. 450), author of histories of See also:Persia, See also:Libya, and See also:Ethiopia, of See also:annals (ibpor) of his native See also:town with lists of the prytaneis and archons, and of the See also:chronicles of Lacedaemonian See also:kings; See also:Xanthus of See also:Sardis in See also:Lydia (c. 450), author of a history of Lydia, one of the See also:chief authorities used by Nicolaus of See also:Damascus (fl. during the See also:time of See also:Augustus); See also:Hellanicus of Mytilene; Stesimbrotus of See also:Thasos, opponent of See also:Pericles and reputed author of a See also:political pamphlet on See also:Themistocles, Thucydides and Pericles; Hippys and See also:Glaucus, both of Rhegium, the first the author of histories of See also:Italy and See also:Sicily, the second of a See also:treatise on See also:ancient poets and musicians, used by See also:Harpocration and See also:Plutarch; Damastes of Sigeum, See also:pupil of Hellanicus, author of genealogies of the combatants before See also:Troy (an ethnographic and statistical See also:list), of See also:short See also:treatises on poets, See also:sophists, and See also:geographical subjects. On the early Greek historians, see G. Busolt, GriechischeGeschichte (1893), i. 147-153; 'C.

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Wachsmuth, Einleitung in das Studium der See also:alten Geschichte (1895); A. Schafer, Abriss der Quellenkunde der griechischen and romischen Geschichte (ed. H. Nissen, 1889) ; J. B. See also:Bury, Ancient Greek Historians (1909), lecture i.; histories of Greek literature by See also:Muller-See also:Donaldson (ch. 18) and W. See also:Mute (bk, iv. ch. 3), where the little that is known concerning the See also:life and writings of the logographers is exhaustively discussed. The fragments will be found, with Latin notes, See also:translation, prolegomena, and copious indexes, in C. W. Mailer's Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum (1841–1870).

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GREECE: History, Ancient (See also:section, " Authorities "). 1 The word is also used of the writers of speeches for the use of the contending parties in the See also:law courts, who were forbidden to employ See also:advocates. 1 There is some doubt as to whether this Acusilaus was of Beloponnesian or Boeotian Argos. Possibly there were two of the name. For an example of the method of Acusilaus see Bury, op. cit. p. 19.

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