logographer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an early ancient Greek prose writer who recorded genealogies, legends, local histories, or accounts of peoples and places

   The logographer recast traditional heroic tales as a prose genealogy.

2. 2
   noun

   in classical Greece, a professional writer who composed legal speeches for clients to deliver in court

   Lysias became renowned as a logographer whose clients presented his carefully constructed speeches.

From Ancient Greek logographos ("prose writer, speechwriter"), combining logos ("word, speech, account") + graphos ("writer"), from graphein ("write"), and adapted with the English agent ending -er. The two historical senses reflect prose accounts and speeches written for litigants.

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