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Edition of P.Bas. I 1B+C verso, an inventory of church textiles written in Italy in the second half of the eighth century.

Memnon was a local historian of Herakleia Pontica on the south coast of the Black Sea. Some scholars place him in the first century ce, others in the second – especially on somehow doubtful stylistic grounds, associating him with the Second Sophistic. A date in the first century bce is less likely, although not completely to be dismissed. Memnon wrote a history of his polis in at least sixteen books (we do not know the exact title; it could well have been Peri Herakleias). This work is known only through the long summary given by Photios. No other piece of ancient Greek local historiography is preserved to such an extent (FGrH 434). Photios declares that he was unable to find and read other parts of it, adding that Memnon's style was plain, clear, and with a conventional vocabulary, apart from some unusual words. Keywords: agriculture; cultural history; environmental history; farming; religious history; Roman history; social history

Athenian democratic statesman, orator and historian, nephew and political heir of Demosthenes. Keywords: ancient Greece; chronicles and histories; Greek history; intellectual history

Histiaios (ca. 555–493 bce), son of Lysagoras, from a distinguished family, was tyrant of Miletos, directly from ca. 515 to ca. 511, and through his relative Aristagoras. Keywords: Greek history; political history