- Acusilaus
Acusilaus (Ancient Greek: polytonic|Ἀκουσίλαος) of
Argos , son of Cabas or Scabras, was a Greek logographer andmythographer who lived in the latter half of the 6th century BC but whose work survives only in fragments and summaries of individual points. ["Dict. of Ant." p. 575, a]Acusilaus was called the son of Cabras or Scabras, and it is not known whether he was of
Peloponnesian orBoeotia n Argos. Possibly there were two of the name. He is reckoned by some among theSeven Sages of Greece . [Citation
last = Smith
first = William
author-link = William Smith (lexicographer)
contribution = Acusilaus
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title =Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 1
pages = 18
publisher =
place = Boston, MA
year = 1867
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0027.html ]According to the
Suda , Acusilaus wrote genealogies. [Suda , "s.v." polytonic|Ακουσίλαος] Three books of his genealogies are quoted, which were for the most part only a translation ofHesiod into prose. [Clem. "Strom." vi. p. 629, a] Acusilaus claimed to have taken some of his information from bronze tablets discovered in his garden which were inscribed with information, a source looked upon with suspicion by some modern commentators. As with most of the other logographers, he wrote in theIonic dialect .Plato is the earliest writer by whom he is mentioned. [Plato , "Symposium" p. 178, b] The works which bore the name of Acusilaus in a later age were spurious. ["s.v." polytonic|Εκαταιος Μιλήσιος, Ιστορησαι, Συγγράφω]References
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