LOGOGRAPHI, in Greek Xoyorypasot, writers of X67oc or compositions of any sort, especially in prose. (I) In Attic, pro fessional speech-writers. (2) In modern usage (since C. F. Creu zer, d. 1858), pre-Herodotean writers of chronicles, from the doubtfully historical Cadmus of Miletus (q.v.) to Pherecydes (q.v.), all make extensive use of mythology, hence the impor tance of their fragments; their attempts at systematization and criticism are primitive. Their dialect is Ionic. Mention may be made of the following: Hecataeus of Miletus ; Acusi laus of Argos,' who paraphrased in prose (correcting the tradi tion where it seemed necessary) the genealogical works of Hesiod; Charon of Lampsacus (c. 450), author of histories of Persia, Libya, and Ethiopia, of annals (J.)pot) of his native town, and of the chronicles of Lacedaemonian kings; Xanthus of Sardis in Lydia (c. 450), author of a history of Lydia; Hellanicus of Mytilene ; Stesimbrotus of Thasos, opponent of Pericles and 'There is some doubt as to whether this Acusilaus was of Pelopon nesian or Boeotian Argos. Possibly there were two of the name. For
an example of the method of Acusilaus see Bury, op. cit. p. 19.
reputed author of a political pamphlet on Themistocles, Thucy dides, and Pericles; Hippys and Glaucus, both of Rhegium, the first the author of histories of Italy and Sicily, the second of a treatise on ancient poets and musicians; Damastes of Sigeum, pupil of Hellanicus, author of genealogies of the combatants before Troy (an ethnographic and statistical list), of short trea tises on poets, sophists, and geographical subjects. BIBLIoGRAPEEY.—Fragments, in C. W. Muller, Fragmenta Historico rum Graecorum, and F. Jacoby, Fragmente der griechischen His toriker: comment. See also Christ-Schmid, Geschichte d. gr. Literatur, 6, p. 449.