In "The History of the Destruction of Troy", Dares the Phrygian boldly claimed to be an eyewitness to the Trojan War, while challenging the accounts of two of the ancient world's most canonical poets, Homer and Virgil. For over a millennium, Dares' work was circulated as the fir…
Dares Phrygius, First Pagan Historian -- Dares Forged: Histories Real and Imagined in the Classical and Late Antique Worlds -- Dares Compiled: From Ancient History to Medieval Genealogy -- Dares Translated: Historical Veracity and Poetic Fiction -- Dares Attacked: Early Modern C…
"The First Pagan Historian traces the reception history of a text that is now largely neglected but once occupied a central role in the ancient canon-the De excidio Troiae historia or History of the Destruction of Troy of one Dares Phrygius, who claimed to have been an eyewitnes…
"The First Pagan Historian traces the reception history of a text that is now largely neglected but once occupied a central role in the ancient canon-the De excidio Troiae historia or History of the Destruction of Troy of one Dares Phrygius, who claimed to have been an eyewitnes…
"If the vibrancy in Thinking in the Past is any indication, the study of intellectual history is enjoying an unusually fertile period in both Europe and North America. This collection of conversations with leading scholars brims with insights from such diverse fields as the hist…
