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W. Schmid, Griech. Literaturgesch. 704, where the relevant literature is listed. 21 Cf. H. Ant. Rom. 35, where the version of Hellanicus is also given. 22 For Hellanicus' account of the settlement of Sicily, cf. 79 and 82. For his ety- mologies of tribal and place names cf. 13, 14, 38, 71. 5. 102. 25 Far more frequent than these remarks characteristic of Ktiseis are those which recall the style of a Periegesis and the methods of Hecataeus of Miletus. Such characteristics, as revealed by the fragments of Hecataeus, are a readiness to connect geographical sites with heroes and episodes of mythology; an interest in earlier names of places; a tendency to describe an inland settlement or an island by giving its distance from the coast; and above all a tendency to use certain very brief formulae in giving the information.
It is true that his choice of topics is to some extent influenced by the lack of any accurate treatment of these questions. But in his general preference for digressions about Athenian matters he shows an affinity to Hellanicus rather than to Herodotus. His brief ac- count of the ceremony of public burial, his remarks about Athenian religious and social traditions (the Hermae, the rural habits of the Athenians), and his occasional insistence on points of Athenian topography are all in conformity with the traditions of an Atthis.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The fifth chapter of my Early Ionian Historians is devoted to Hellanicus and a portion of the chapter to his Atthis. In the preceding discussion it has been necessary to go over some of the same ground and a certain amount of repetition has been inevitable. The only alternative to such repetition would have been a poorly balanced argument with numerous cross-references. Among earlier discussions of Hellanicus the following may be mentioned: L. Preller, "De Hellanico Lesbio," in Ausgewahlte AufsiUze (1864).