Editing Logographer (history) (section)

==Notable examples==
[[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]] (''On Thucydides'', 5) names those who were most famous in the classical world. They are noted with an asterisk (*) in the following incomplete list of logographers:

*[[Acusilaus]] of Argos, who paraphrased in prose, correcting the tradition where it seemed necessary, the genealogical works of [[Hesiod]] in the Ionic dialect. He confined his attention to the prehistoric period and did not attempt a real history.
* [[Cadmus of Miletus]]*
* Charon* of [[Lampsacus]], author of histories of Persia, Libya, and Ethiopia, and of annals of his native town, with lists of the [[prytaneis]] and [[archon]]s, and of the chronicles of [[Lacedaemon]]ian kings.
*[[Damastes of Sigeion]], pupil of [[Hellanicus of Lesbos]], author of genealogies of the combatants before Troy and an ethnographic and statistical list of short treatises on poets, sophists, and geographical subjects.
* [[Hecataeus of Miletus]]*
* [[Hellanicus of Lesbos]]*, provides the earliest known account of the founding of Rome by [[Aeneas]]<ref>*{{citation|last=Rodríguez Mayorgas|first=Ana|title=Romulus, Aeneas and the Cultural Memory of the Roman Republic|journal=Athenaeum|volume=98|issue=1|date=2010|page=93 fn.18|accessdate=14 December 2016|url=http://eprints.sim.ucm.es/24264/1/RodriguezMayorgas.pdf}}</ref>
* Hippys* and [[Glaucus (disambiguation)|Glaucus]], both of [[Rhegium]]; the first wrote histories of Italy and Sicily, the second a treatise on ancient poets and musicians which was used by [[Harpocration]] and [[Pseudo-Plutarch]]
* [[Melesagoras]]* of [[Chalcedon]]
* [[Pherecydes of Athens]]*
*[[Stesimbrotos of Thasos]], opponent of [[Pericles]] and reputed author of a political pamphlet on [[Themistocles]], Thucydides, and Pericles.
* [[Xanthus (historian)|Xanthus]]*, of [[Sardis]] in [[Lydia]], author of a history of Lydia and one of the chief authorities used by [[Nicolaus]] of Damascus.