Название: The First Pagan Historian: The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the EnlightenmentАвтор: Frederic Clark
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 21 Мб
Язык: английский / English
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.