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These are the historical fragments of Metrodorus of Chios, a 4th-century BC writer in the tradition of Democritus. His prose works are lost and survive only in citations by Athenaeus, Plutarch, Pliny and the Homeric scholia. The set includes passages from his Troika, on legends of the Trojan age such as Marsyas' invention of the pipes at Celaenae and the building of Laomedon's wall, a fragment of his Ionika, and a note of Homeric interpretation.
Metrodorus combined philosophy with antiquarian research into myth and early history. These fragments preserve traditions about the origins of music and about Troy that later writers found worth quoting, and they show that a philosopher known for his radical doubt also wrote learned accounts of legend.
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