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'Dares Phrygius', according to Homer (Iliad, 5.9, 5.27), was a Trojan priest of Hephaestus. He was supposed to have been the author of an account of the destruction of Troy, and to have lived before Homer (Aelian., Var. Hisi. Xl. 2). A work in Latin, purporting to be a translation of this, and entitled ''Daretis Phrygii de excidio Trojae historia'', was much read in the Middle Ages, and was then ascribed to Cornelius Nepos, who is made to dedicate it to Sallust; but the language is extremely corrupt, and the work belongs to a period much later than the time of Nepos (probably the late 5th century, early C6th A.D.).
It is doubtful whether the existing work is an abridgment of a larger Latin work or an adaptation of a Greek original. Together with the similar work of Dictys Cretensis (with which it is generally printed), the ''De excidio'' forms the chief source for the numerous medieval accounts of the Trojan legend.
★ O. S. von Fleschenberg, ''Daresstudie'', i, 1908.
★ (fr) Louis Faivre d'Arcier, Histoire et géographie d’un mythe. La circulation des manuscrits du De excidio Troiae de Darès le Phrygien (VIIIe-XVe s.), Paris, 2006 (ISBN 2-900791-79-0).
★ (de) Andreas Beschorner, Untersuchungen zu Dares Phrygius. Narr, Tübingen, 1992 (ISBN 3-8233-4863-9).
★ Online translation of Dares Phrygius
★ ★ class=wikiexternal target=_blank>.html#Dares_Phrygius Literary Frauds among the Romans, ''TAPA'' 25:140-164
'Dares Phrygius', according to Homer (Iliad, 5.9, 5.27), was a Trojan priest of Hephaestus. He was supposed to have been the author of an account of the destruction of Troy, and to have lived before Homer (Aelian., Var. Hisi. Xl. 2). A work in Latin, purporting to be a translation of this, and entitled ''Daretis Phrygii de excidio Trojae historia'', was much read in the Middle Ages, and was then ascribed to Cornelius Nepos, who is made to dedicate it to Sallust; but the language is extremely corrupt, and the work belongs to a period much later than the time of Nepos (probably the late 5th century, early C6th A.D.).
It is doubtful whether the existing work is an abridgment of a larger Latin work or an adaptation of a Greek original. Together with the similar work of Dictys Cretensis (with which it is generally printed), the ''De excidio'' forms the chief source for the numerous medieval accounts of the Trojan legend.
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References
★ O. S. von Fleschenberg, ''Daresstudie'', i, 1908.
★ (fr) Louis Faivre d'Arcier, Histoire et géographie d’un mythe. La circulation des manuscrits du De excidio Troiae de Darès le Phrygien (VIIIe-XVe s.), Paris, 2006 (ISBN 2-900791-79-0).
★ (de) Andreas Beschorner, Untersuchungen zu Dares Phrygius. Narr, Tübingen, 1992 (ISBN 3-8233-4863-9).
External link
★ Online translation of Dares Phrygius
★ ★ class=wikiexternal target=_blank>.html#Dares_Phrygius Literary Frauds among the Romans, ''TAPA'' 25:140-164
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