Duris

Duris of Samos in Wikipedia

Duris of Samos (Greek Δοῦρις); probably born around 350 BC; died after 281 BC) was a Greek historian and was at some period tyrant of Samos. Personal and political life Duris claimed to be a descendant of Alcibiades,[1] and was the brother of Lynceus of Samos. He had a son, Scaeus, who won the boys' boxing at the Olympian Games "while the Samians ...

Read More

Duris in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Δοῦρις). A Samian writer of history who flourished about B.C. 350. He was a descendant of Alcibiades, and at one time was tyrant of Samos. Only fragments now remain of his historical writings, which were as follows: 1. A history of Greece (Ἡ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν Ἱστορία), from B.C. 370 to B.C. 281; 2. Περὶ Ἀγαθοκλέα Ἱστορίαι; 3. Σαμίων Ὧροι; 4. Περὶ ...

Read More