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Headword:
Akousilaos
Adler number: alpha,942
Translated headword: Akousilaos, Akusilaos, Acusilaus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Kabas; an Argive, from the city of Kerkas, which is near
Aulis;[1] a very ancient historian.[2] He wrote
Genealogies from bronze tablets, which, the story goes, his father found while digging a place at his home.
Akousilaos: Kaba huios, Argeios, apo Kerkados poleôs, ousês Aulidos plêsion: historikos presbutatos. egrapse de genealogias ek deltôn chalkôn, has logos heurein ton patera autou oruxanta tina topon tês oikias autou.
Notes:
OCD(4) p.11; FGrH 2.
[1] On Kerkas see M. Pierart in M.H. Hansen and T.H.Nielsen (eds.),
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford 2004) 601.
[2] "Shortly before the Persian Wars", according to
Josephus,
Against Apion 1.13 (= FGrH 2 T3); that is, early fifth century BCE. (The designation
presbu/tatos, however, may carry overtones of distinction at least as much as of age: witness the remark attributed to
Sophocles in
Plutarch,
Nikias 15.)
Der Neue Pauly s.v Akusilaos.
C.W. Fornara, The Nature of History in Ancient Greece and Rome (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1983) 4
Keywords: biography; chronology; daily life; geography; historiography; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Joseph L. Rife on 11 February 2000@18:33:18.
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