ABSTRACT
From the period of the Persian Wars onward the Atthidographers become more exclusively chroniclers of recorded facts, albeit always with an unabashedly pro-Athenian bias. It is still the case that there are huge gaps between the preserved fragments, so it is never possible to arrive at a clear understanding of the overall interpretation (if any) that the individual authors gave to any particular issue. Their usefulness remains in the details they provide, most of which are not included in the accounts of the major historians (e.g. the list of Athenian strategoi in 441/0 by Androtion F37).
