The logographers (from the Ancient Greek λογογρ?φο?, logographos, a compound of λ?γο?, logos, here meaning "story" or "prose", and γρ?φω, grapho, "write") were the Greek historiographers and chroniclers before Herodotus, "the father of history". Herodotus himself called his predecessors λογοποιο? (logopoioi, from ποι?ω, poieo, "to make").