Dating creation for the creation by using ancient sources or records of mythological figures. Since Inachus was dated 400 years after the flood of Ogyges and that Ogyges himself was considered a Titan or a primordial Autochthon "from earliest ages", some ancient Greek or Romans dated the creation (beginning with Chaos or Gaia) only a few hundred years before Ogyges (2376–2050 BC). Most ancient Greeks, however, did not subscribe to such a literalist view of using mythology to attempt to date the creation; Hecataeus of Miletus was an early ancient Greek logographer who strongly criticised this method, while Ptolemy wrote of such
The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World Thucydides' historiography. He cites numerous fourth and fifth-century BC sources to argue that Greek writers themselves (including Plato) saw political tendencies rooted ultimately in economic interests. There is also lengthy discussion of the significance of the mode by which surplus value is generated. De Ste. Croix argues that a "mode of surplus extraction", a concept devised by Marx, is significant and is not necessarily the same as the mode of production engaged in by the majority of a population. "The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World" has received much scholarly attention: more, according to Paul Cartledge, than almost any