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HELLANICUS or LESBOS, Greek logographer, flourished during the latter half of the 5th century B.C. According to Suidas, he lived for some time at the court of one of the kings of Macedon, and died at Perperene, a town on the gulf of Adr:-myttium opposite Lesbos. Some thirty works are attributed to himchronological, historical and episodical. Mention may be made of: The Priestesses of Hera at Argos, a chronological compilation, arranged according to the order of succession of these functionaries; the Carneonikae, a list
chief
little regard to chronological sequence: Phoronis, chiefly genealogical, with short notices of events from the times of Phorcneus the Argive " first man " to. the return of the Heraclidae; Troica and Persica, histories of Troy and Persia. Hellanicus marks a real step in the development of historiography. He transcended the narrow local limits of the older logographers, and was not content to repeat the traditions that had gained general acceptation through the poets. He tried to give the traditions as they were locally current, and availed himself of the few national or priestly registers that presented something like contemporary registration. He endeavoured to lay the foundations of a scientific chronology, based primarily on the list
dates
inscriptions which were ready to hand. Dionysius
Halicarnassus
Fragments in Miller, Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum, i. and iv.; see among older works L. Preller , De Hellanico Lesbio historico (184o); Mare, History of Greek Literature, iv.; late
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