ABSTRACT
Atthis or Attike (syngraphe), meaning ‘the Athenian or Attic (history)’, was the title given in antiquity to a series of monographs, written between the end of the fi fth century and the middle of the third BC, that focussed upon Athens and its surrounding territory, Attika. Or rather, this is the way these works were referred to by others; the titles, if any, attached to them by their authors are not preserved, and may have been quite different (Androtion: 1-3). It was some time in the Hellenistic period, probably at the hands of the Alexandrian scholar, Kallimakhos, that the abbreviated title Atthis became standard, and the authors of these monographs were thenceforth referred to as ‘those who composed the Atthides’. Modern scholars have devised the term, Atthidographers, to replace this cumbersome periphrasis, and have created the title, Atthidography, for the genre of historiography they wrote. These authors and their works are the subject of this volume.
