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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 See also: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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