The first pagan historian : the fortunes of a fraud from antiquity to the Enlightenment /

"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 eyewitness observer of th...

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