Acusilaus of Argos
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- urn:cite:perseus:author.14
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- tlg0392
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- nr2006008684
- Name:
- Acusilaus of Argos
- Abbr:
- Acus.
- Alt names:
- Ἀκουσίλαος
Acusilaus, Argivus
Acusilaus, Historicus
Akousilaos, Argeios
Acousilaos
Acusilaos, von Argos
Akusilaos, von Argos
Acusilao, di Argo
Acusilao, Logografo
Acusilao, de Argos
Acusilaus, Historicus
Acus.
- Field of activity:
- Historian
Logographer
Mythographer
- Notes:
- Pherecydis Fragmenta, 1824: t.p. (fragmenta Acusilai) p. 214 (Akouisilaos, Argeios)
Oxford classical dict., 1996: p. 11 (Acusilaus, of Argos, lived before the Perisn Wars
compiled genealogies and studied Hesiod)
TLG Canon of Greek Authors and Works, Third Edition,
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol , 1867, p. 1:
Brills's New Pauly: "Acusilaus, from Argos, Lived at the end of the 6th and first half of 5th cent. BC, was according to Hecataeus
of Miletus one of the first Greek prose writers and wrote in the Ionian dialect. He is traditionally regarded as belonging to the group of so-called logographoi
(a generic term used in Thuc. 1,21,1) ( Logographer) and, as far as we can determine, was primarily concerned with mythography....."
from Montanari, Franco (Pisa). "Acusilaus." Brill's New Pauly. Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and
Helmuth Schneider . Brill, 2011. Brill Online. Tufts University Library. 26 September 2011
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