Hellanikos of Lesbos
Hellanikos of Lesbos (Greek Ἑλλάνικος Hellánikos , Latinized Hellanicus ; * around 490/480 BC probably in Mytilene ; † around 400 BC in Perperene in Mysia ) was an ancient Greek historian .
Hellanikos is considered the first Greek writer who writes a lot. But only fragments of his numerous works (probably more than twenty) have survived. He collected the Greek sagas and arranged them according to gender and landscape. In addition, he wrote works on geography, including on Egypt, Persia ( Persica ) and individual Greek landscapes, and chronological lists (especially of the Herapriestesses of Argos ). His Atthis ("Attic story"), like his other local stories, has not survived, but was mentioned by Thucydides . It described the time from the beginnings of Athens to the Peloponnesian War in a chronological method, which was considered a particular step forward compared to its predecessors. With the atthis , a tradition of Attic local historians, the atthidographers , began. Hellanikos did not rely on his own observations and research, but on the statements of other people, which he accepted without criticism. Thucydides and his successors criticized Hellanikos' style and inaccuracies. His work, especially his chronological compilations, led to the actual writing of history.
literature
- Delfino Ambaglio: L'opera storiografica di Ellanico di Lesbo. Pisa 1980, ISBN 8842709638 .
- Hans Gärtner : Hellanikos 1). In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, Sp. 1004-1006.
- Felix Jacoby : Atthis. The local chronicles of ancient Athens . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1949; Reprinted by Arno Press, New York 1973. ISBN 0-405-04796-7 .
- Christopher Joyce: What Hellanikos the First Chronicler of Athens? In: Histos 3, 1999, pp. 1-17.
- Gabriella Ottone: L'Attike xyngraphe di Ellanico di Lesbo. Una local history in prospettiva eccentrica . In Cinzia Bearzot, Franca Landucci (ed.): Storie di Atene, storia dei Greci. Studi e ricerche di attidografia. Milan 2010, pp. 53-111, ISBN 978-88-343-1950-5 .
- Bernadotte Perrin : The Iereiai of Hellanicus and the Burning of the Argive Heraeum . In: American Journal of Philology 22 (1), 1901, pp. 39-43, doi : 10.2307 / 288685
- Johan Henrik Schreiner: Hellanikos, Thukydides and the era of Kimon . Aarhus University Press, Aarhus 1997, ISBN 87-7288-703-6 .
- Wesley E. Thompson: Andocides and Hellanicus . In: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 98, 1967, pp. 483-490, doi : 10.2307 / 2935890
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SURNAME | Hellanikos of Lesbos |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ἑλλάνικος (Greek); Hellanicus (Latin); Hellanikos |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 480 BC Chr. |
PLACE OF BIRTH | unsure: Mytilene |
DATE OF DEATH | around 400 BC Chr. |
Place of death | Perperene , Mysia |