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  • noun Plural form of logographer.

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  • "Several of these early historians, or 'logographers' are known to have written books of this kind entitled Genealogiai, Genealogika (e. g.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • This mythical tale, of which the subject was a history of the wars of the Athenians against the Island of Atlantis, is supposed to be founded upon an unfinished poem of Solon, to which it would have stood in the same relation as the writings of the logographers to the poems of Homer.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • Cabeiro, who is mentioned in the logographers Acusilaus and Pherecydes as the wife of

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • But the _logographers_, as they were called, only wrote prose epics.

    Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

  • This mythical tale, of which the subject was a history of the wars of the Athenians against the Island of Atlantis, is supposed to be founded upon an unfinished poem of Solon, to which it would have stood in the same relation as the writings of the logographers to the poems of

    The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • The constant appeal to the authority of Homer, whom, with grave irony, Plato, after the manner of his age, summons as a witness about ethics and psychology, as well as about diet and medicine; attempting to distinguish the better lesson from the worse, sometimes altering the text from design; more than once quoting or alluding to Homer inaccurately, after the manner of the early logographers turning the

    The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

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