Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 2 : Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts

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Duris of Samos
(281 words)

ca. 340–ca. 270 BC;

Versatile Greek writer, especially of historical works; representative of the so-called tragic or mimetic school of historiography (by means of sophisticated literary techniques).

Works

The historical work is only preserved in fragments It became a source for later historians, thus for instance his History of Agathocles was used by Diodorus [18]. The Makedoniká is extensively quoted by Athenaeus [3] in the Deipnosophistaí (for more recent translations …

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Landfester, Manfred, “Duris of Samos”, in: Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 2 : Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts, English edition by Tine Jerke and Volker Dallman (2009). Original German-language edition: Geschichte der antiken Texte: Autoren- und Werklexikon. Herausgegeben von Manfred Landfester in Verbindung mit Brigitte Egger. Serie: Der Neue Pauly – Supplemente, 1. Staffel, herausgegeben von Hubert Cancik, Manfred Landfester und Helmuth Schneider, Band 2. Stuttgart, Germany. Copyright © J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH (2007). Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-8647_bnps2_COM_0082>
First published online: 2011
First print edition: 9789004167834, 20090831



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