Dares Phrygius
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title:
Dares Phrygius
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Dares Phrygius, according to Homer, was a Trojan priest of Hephaestus. He was later thought to have been the author of an account of the destruction of Troy. A work in Latin, purporting to be a translation of this, and entitled Daretis Phrygii de excidio Troiae 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 better fits a period much later than the time of Nepos. It is unknown whether the existing work
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Mythical Trojan writer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dares_Phrygius
date created:
2005-07-30T00:28:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T20:39:59Z
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