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Logographer logo #10101) Ancient Greek lawyer
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Logographer

Logographer logo #21000 In ancient Greece, the title logographer was applied to two groups of people: ...
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Logographer

Logographer logo #21000[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`. Herodotus himself called his predecessors λογοποιοί (logo...
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Logographer

Logographer logo #21000[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 is roughly equivalent. In the Athens of antiquity, the law required a ...
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Logographer

Logographer logo #21002• (n.) One skilled in logography. • (n.) A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.
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logographer

logographer logo #21003(from the article `Antiphon`) orator and statesman, the earliest Athenian known to have taken up rhetoric as a profession. He was a logographos; i.e., a writer of speeches for ... ...had to do the speaking himself. Not every citizen, of course, possessed sufficient skill to write his own speeches—a fact that gave rise to the ... ...
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Logographer

Logographer logo #20972Lo·gog'ra·pher noun 1. A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences. 2. One skilled in logography.
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Logographer

Logographer logo #21217Logographer was a term in Greek literature for certain early historical writers, from 550 BC onward, using the Ionic dialect, and making no attempt to discriminate between history and legend.
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logographer

logographer logo #21009logographer 1. A story writer: short-story, novelist, etc. 2 A writer of spoken language in longhand as opposed to shorthand. 3. A prose writer in ancient Greece.
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