Ch. 7. Comedy and History, Theory and Evidence in Duris of Samos

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  • Christopher Baron

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/histos106

Abstract

This paper o-ers a brief investigation of what the fragments of the third-century BCE author Duris of Samos reveal about the relationship between comedy and history. I argue that his citations of comic poetry match his stated concern for vividness in historical narrative. I also consider the light shed on Greek historical writing in the fourth and third centuries by Duris’ practice of using comedy as historical evidence. Given his interest in multiple genres and his connection to the Peripatetics, it would not be surprising if Duris turned to comedy more frequently than his predecessors had done. Published in Emily Baragwanath and Edith Foster, ed., Clio and Thalia. Attic Comedy and Historiography (HISTOS Supplement 6), p. 211-39.

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2017-01-01

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Baron, Christopher. 2017. “Ch. 7. Comedy and History, Theory and Evidence in Duris of Samos”. Histos, January, 211-39. https://doi.org/10.29173/histos106.

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2017: HISTOS Supplement 6: Clio and Thalia. Attic Comedy and Historiography, edited by Emily Baragwanath and Edith Foster (2017)

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