logographer

A logographer in the historiographical sense (λογογράφος, logographos) was an early Greek prose writer of genealogies, local chronicles, and accounts of peoples and places active before and alongside Herodotus. The center of activity lay in Ionia and adjacent islands, and the preferred dialect was Ionic written in a continuous or "running" style (λέξις εἰρομένη). Their work systematized mythic traditions into prose narrative — especially city-foundations, ruling families, and ethnography — and supplied material later reworked by classical historians.