The Trojan War : new edition : the chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian / translated with an introduction and notes by R.M. Frazer Jr.

Author: Dictys, Cretensis, author.

Edition Statement:First paperback edition ; new edition.

ImprintBloomington : Indiana University Press, 2019.

Imprint1966.

Descriptionxxi, 185 pages ; 21 cm

Note:Introduction -- The medieval Troy story -- The anti-Homerica tradition -- Dictys -- Dares -- The translation -- A journal of the Trojan War / by Dictys of Crete -- The fall of Troy, a history / by Dares the Phrygian.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:Dictys, from the Greek perspective, and Dares, from the Trojan perspective, present "first-hand" reports of the Trojan War quite different from the telling in Homer's poems. These likely first century AD literary works were important sources for the medieval view of the Trojan War, eventually influencing Chaucer and Shakespeare.

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