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The First Pagan Historian - The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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The First Pagan Historian - The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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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 first pagan history. It promised facts
and only facts about what really happened at Troy - precise
casualty figures, no mention of mythical phenomena, and a claim
that Troy fell when Aeneas and other Trojans betrayed their city
and opened its gates to the Greeks. But for all its intrigue, the
work was as fake as it was sensational. From the late antique
encyclopedist Isidore of Seville to Thomas Jefferson, The First
Pagan Historian offers the first comprehensive account of Dares'
rise and fall as a reliable and canonical guide to the distant
past. Along the way, it reconstructs the central role of forgery in
longstanding debates over the nature of history, fiction,
criticism, philology, and myth, from ancient Rome to the
Enlightenment.
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