hellanicus

Updated: June 29, 2025

Now I have for witnesses to what I have said, all those that have written Antiquities, both among the Greeks and barbarians; for even Manetho, who wrote the Egyptian History, and Berosus, who collected the Chaldean Monuments, and Mochus, and Hestieus, and, besides these, Hieronymus the Egyptian, and those who composed the Phoenician History, agree to what I here say: Hesiod also, and Hecatseus, Hellanicus, and Acusilaus; and, besides these, Ephorus and Nicolaus relate that the ancients lived a thousand years.

Flavius Josephus - Antiquities of the Jews

Ionia the subtle, the innovating, the anxious, and the restless nurse of the arts, which the mother country ultimately reared, boasts in Cadmus the Milesian the first writer of history and of prose ; Samos, the birthplace of Pythagoras, produced Eugeon, placed by Dionysius at the head of the early historians; and Mitylene claimed Hellanicus, who seems to have formed a more ambitious design than his predecessors.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete