Greek philosophers
Akousilaos
Akousilaos was a Greek philosopher, logographer and historian. His name is sometimes referred to as "of Argos", after a town in the Peloponnese.
Akousilaos lived around 500 BC and is counted among the Seven Sages. After Hecataeus, he was the first Greek to write his works not in verse but in prose.
Akousilaos was to write three books entitled Genealogiai, which dealt with the genealogy of gods, heroes and men. In these books he composed a coherent system. Interestingly, it was he who claimed that Uranos, fearing that his sons (the Hekatoncheires - the hundred-eyed giants) might overthrow him, had cast them into the depths of Tartarus.
Among the mediators of his views were Apollodorus of Athens, Clemenes of Alexandria, the epicurean Philodemos of Gadara, and Damaskios.