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Historiography as a genre started only in the later fifth century, with Herodotus and Thucydides.³⁵ What they could still learn about early wars had undergone more or less a process of transformation into myth or, in turn, pseudo-historical myths had been invented to explain how actual structures had come about and why certain claims were justified.

Thucydides (1.12ff.) gives a catalog of early Greek wars. Starting from the Trojan War, he distinguishes between migrations involving many groups and conflicts between two neighbors (1.15.2). An exception is the Lelantine War, when further Greek states and groups of allies³⁶ supported the two opponents (1.15.3); so we have before us more than a neighborhood conflict.³⁷