4th-century BC Greek historian and tyrant of Samos
Duris of Samos
Relief inscribed stele with the Samian honorary decree
Born
c. 350BC
Died
After 281BC
Samos
Occupation(s)
Tyrant Historian
Known for
Ruling Samos Writing history
Notable work
A narrative history of Greece
Duris of Samos (or Douris) (Greek: Δοῦρις ὁ Σάμιος; c. 350BC – after 281BC) was a Greek historian and was at some period tyrant of Samos. Duris was the author of a narrative history of events in Greece and especially Macedonia from 371BC to 281BC, which has been lost. Other works included a life of Agathocles of Syracuse and a number of treatises on literary and artistic subjects.
Syracuse Callisthenes Cratippus of Athens Ctesias Dinon DurisofSamos Ephorus Eudemus of Rhodes Hellanicus of Lesbos Heracleides of Cyme Herodotus Philistus...
Samos (/ˈseɪmɒs/, also US: /ˈsæmoʊs, ˈsɑːmɔːs/; Greek: Σάμος, romanized: Sámos) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of...
– History Diogenes Laërtius – History of Philosophy DurisofSamos – History Epicurus – Philosophy Epimenides of Knossos – Philosophy, Philosophical poetry...
she lost [or: destroyed] the children she bore". Duris of Samos, Libyica, Book 2. DurisofSamos (d. 280 B. C.), Libyca, quoted by Ogden (2013b), p. 98 Aristotle...
up Duris or duris in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Duris or Douris may refer to: Duris, Lebanon, a village near Baalbek, Lebanon DurisofSamos (4th...
works he drew include Hecataeus of Abdera, Ctesias of Cnidus, Ephorus, Theopompus, Hieronymus of Cardia, DurisofSamos, Diyllus, Philistus, Timaeus, Polybius...
works of the major Hellenistic historians Hieronymus of Cardia (who worked under Alexander, Antigonus I and other successors), DurisofSamos and Phylarchus...
took it to be only fiction (Aristobulus of Cassandreia, Chares of Mytilene, Ptolemy I of Egypt, DurisofSamos). Plutarch also mentions when Alexander's...
was the son of Polyarchus (Ancient Greek: Πολύαρχος) from Halicarnassus, but the historian DurisofSamos claimed that Panyasis was the son of Diocles (Ancient...
"Because of Hera ... she lost [or: destroyed] the children she bore". DurisofSamos (d. 280 B. C.), Libyca, quoted by Ogden (2013b), p. 98 Ovid, Metamorphoses...
the population of captured Greek poleis such as Lampsacus. The Westland Lysander aircraft was named after him. According to DurisofSamos, Lysander was...
Lynceus ofSamos (Ancient Greek: Λυγκεὺς ὁ Σάμιος), brother of the historian DurisofSamos, was a classical Greek author of comedies, letters and humorous...
History of Alexander by Cleitarchus On the empire of the Macedonians by Criton of Pieria Histories (also listed as Macedonica and Hellenica) by Durisof Samos...
Plutarch to DurisofSamos, that Aspasia was responsible for Athens' involvement in the Samian War, may have derived from this. The mention of Aspasia's...
Clytemnestra, but DurisofSamos and other writers , such as Antoninus Liberalis , followed Stesichorus' account. Ovid's Heroides give us an idea of how ancient...
Battle of Issus. He assisted Alexander at the Siege of Tyre, where he lost his flagship, and received the city of Tamassus as a reward (DurisofSamos, FGrH...
reason. In his biography of Phocion, Plutarch writes "Hellenic War", because his source was DurisofSamos, who wrote a history book of the period in the 270s...
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