Editing Ephorus (section)

==Critiques==

According to the [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition]], his surviving writings all show a certain lack of passion, in spite of his keen interest in matters of style, and of political partisanship, except for his enthusiasm for Cyme. According to ancient writers, he was respected as an able and thorough, though somewhat dull historiographer.<ref>In his ''Epichorios logos'' he made [[Homer]] a Cymean. Strabo (xiii 3.6) mocked him for always including an account of the deeds of his countrymen ("At that time, the Cymeans kept their peace."). Meister, ''Die griechische Geschichtsschreibung'' Kolhlhammer, 1990, p. 86f.</ref> He was commended for drawing (though not always) a sharp line of demarcation between the mythical and historical;<ref>[[Strabo]] ix</ref> he even recognized that a profusion of detail, though lending corroborative force to accounts of recent events, is ground for suspicion, in reports of far-distant history. His style was high-flown and artificial, as was natural considering his early training, and he frequently sacrificed truth to rhetoric effect. However, according to [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], he and Theopompus were the only historical writers whose language was accurate and complete.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}