By Philli Harding
A number one authority within the box, Phillip Harding provides the first actual English translations of the six Athenian writers often called the Atthidographers. In his bright and unique heritage, Harding examines the rest fragments of those old writers' paintings – in chronological order – and the way those writings, courting from the 5th and fourth century BC, show a useful wealth of knowledge approximately early Athenian heritage, legend, faith, customs and anecdotes. Harding additionally is going directly to examine how those histories of Athens and its humans have been the resource for later surviving historians corresponding to Plutarch and Diodorus. as a result of linking textual content and unique annotation, an individual with an curiosity in Athenian heritage, classical Greece want glance no extra.
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In the case of Philokhoros, while Jacoby (Text: 265) may be correct in asserting that this passage does not ‘contain a reference to the autochthony of the Athenians’, it is suggestive that he uses very much the same language to describe the Athenians (‘scattered nomads’) as Androtion had used of the Thebans. For my part, I suspect that the rationalizing tendency evident in most fragments of the Atthidographers would have led them to reject the more extreme version of Athenian propaganda that is found in the epitaphios.
17–30. Whatever their historical reality might or might not be, they were frequently represented in Greek myths from Homer onward, often in quite contradictory ways, sometimes as barbarians, sometimes as Greek, at times indigenous preGreeks, at other times intruders from outside. Often, these different 24 K EK R O PS TO K RANAOS representations reflected the attempts of local communities to express their own ethnic identity through their relationship, or not, to them (SourvinouInwood 2003: 107–21).
At any rate, the passage from Aristophanes shows that the idea was earlier than Hellanikos and, therefore, preceded the first written Atthis. Nevertheless, it was undoubtedly a feature of the Atthidographers’ understanding of the Pelasgians and their place in Athenian history. See further in Appendix 3. 26 K EK R O PS TO K RANAOS The daughters of Kekrops and the birth of Erikhthonios 19. Hellanikos F1 = Synagoge Lex. 1; Etymologicum Genuinum p. 41; Etymologicum Magnum p. v. Areios Pagos: A lawcourt at Athens.