The First Pagan Historian
The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 December 2020
- ISBN 9780190492304
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages366 pages
- Size 234x152x17 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 illustrations 69
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Short description:
The First Pagan Historian offers the first comprehensive account of Dares the Phyrgian, the infamous author of The History of the Destruction of Troy, tracing his afterlife from the late antique encyclopedist Isidore of Seville to Thomas Jefferson. Along the way, it reconstructs Dares' central place in longstanding debates over the nature of history, fiction, criticism, philology, and myth, from ancient Rome to the Enlightenment.
MoreLong description:
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.
C. provides an impressive overview of the history of medieval manuscript cultures, codicology, forgery and reception. The book is written in accessible language, assuming no prior knowledge on the part of readers.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Dares Phrygius, First Pagan Historian
Chapter One
Dares Forged: Histories Real and Imagined in the Classical and Late Antique Worlds
Chapter Two
Dares Compiled: From Ancient History to Medieval Genealogy
Chapter Three
Dares Translated: Historical Veracity and Poetic Fiction
Chapter Four
Dares Attacked: Early Modern Criticism and the Formation of an Ancient Canon
Chapter Five
Dares Printed and Philologized: The Ebbs and Flows of a Forger's Fortunes
Chapter Six
Dares Survives: Webs of Misattribution and the Persistence of the Distant Past
Conclusion
The Perennial Quarrel: Dares between Ancients and Moderns, Truth and Falsehood
