Logographer (history)
Early Greek prose chroniclers and mythographers before Herodotus
Summary
A logographer in the historiographical sense was an early Greek prose writer of genealogies, local chronicles, and accounts of peoples and places active before and alongside Herodotus. The center of activity lay in Ionia and adjacent islands, and the preferred dialect was Ionic written in a continuous or "running" style. Their work systematized mythic traditions into prose narrative — especially city-foundations, ruling families, and ethnography — and supplied material later reworked by classical historians.
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I'd say "a crude attempt to rationalize the current legends and traditions connected with the founding of cities, the genealogies of ruling families, and the manners and customs of individual peoples" is PLENTY more.
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