- Logographer
In ancient Greece, the title logographer was applied to two groups of people:
*The logographers, chroniclers and historians before
Herodotus .
*The logographers, professional legalspeechwriter s.
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Logographer — Lo*gog ra*pher, n. 1. A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences. [1913 Webster] 2. One skilled in logography. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Logographer (legal) — The title of logographer (from the Ancient Greek λογογράφος, logographos , a compound of λόγος, logos , word , and γράφω, grapho , write ) was applied to professional authors of judicial discourse in Ancient Greece. The modern term speechwriter… … Wikipedia
Logographer (history) — The logographers (from the Ancient Greek λογογράφος, logographos , a compound of λόγος, logos , here meaning story or prose , and γράφω, grapho , write ) were the Greek historiographers and chroniclers before Herodotus, the father of history .… … Wikipedia
logographer — lo·gog·ra·pher … English syllables
logographer — A person who writes speeches or chronicles historical events … Grandiloquent dictionary
logographer — lōˈgägrəfə(r) noun ( s) Etymology: Greek logographos prose writer (from log + graphos writer, from graphein to write) + English er more at carve : a prose writer in ancient Greece … Useful english dictionary
logography — logographer, n. /loh gog reuh fee/, n. 1. printing with logotypes. 2. a method of longhand reporting, each of several reporters in succession taking down a few words. [1775 85; < Gk logographía speech writing. See LOGO , GRAPHY] * * * … Universalium
logography — logographer, n. /loh gog reuh fee/, n. 1. printing with logotypes. 2. a method of longhand reporting, each of several reporters in succession taking down a few words. [1775 85; < Gk logographía speech writing. See LOGO , GRAPHY] … Useful english dictionary
Demosthenes — For other historical and fictional personages named Demosthenes, see Demosthenes (disambiguation). Demosthenes Bust of Demosthenes (Louvre, Paris, France) Born … Wikipedia
Dinarchus — or Dinarch (Corinth, c. 361 BC – c. 291 BC) was a logographer (speech writer) in Ancient Greece. He was the last of the ten Attic orators included in the Alexandrian Canon compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the … Wikipedia
