Logographer

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Lo`gog´ra`pher


n. 1. A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.
2. One skilled in logography.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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"Although the technique for political and trial oratory is the same, and the political is nobler and more public than the private, yet men say little of the former, while of the latter they make precise rules, since extraneous matter is harder to introduce in political speech." The history of Greek oratory concentrates heavily on trial speeches, since those were written out (for delivery by participants who hired professional writer (logographoi) and they were later printed, while deliberative oratory was by mandate spontaneous.
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The origins of the style are, of course, to be found in ancient Ionian prose, in the logographoi and especially in Herodotus, from whom Pausanias takes it, since he was one of his models, together with Thucydides who, according to Strid, happened to be his favourite.
It is most useful to compare the archaic style of Xenophon and Pausanias with that of logographoi such as Pherecydes of Athens: see Drager 1995.