Doris of Locris

Doris (Ancient Greek: Δωρίς) of Epizephyrian Locris was the daughter of Xenetus, wife of the Sicilian tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse, and mother of Dionysius II of Syracuse.[1][2]

She died before her husband, who seems to have lamented her in one of his tragedies.[3]

Notes
  1. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 14.44
  2. Plutarch, Dion 3
  3. Lucian. ad v. Indoct. § 15

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bunbury, Edward Herbert (1870). "Doris". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 1068.

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