The first pagan historian : the fortunes of a fraud from antiquity to the Enlightenment
Frederic Clark
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
| Omfang | x, 355 sider
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| Opplysninger | Dares Phrygius, First Pagan Historian -- Dares Forged: Histories Real and Imagined in the Classical and Late Antique Worlds -- Dares Compiled: From Ancient History to Medieval Genealogy -- Dares Translated: Historical Veracity and Poetic Fiction -- Dares Attacked: Early Modern Criticism and the Formation of an Ancient Canon -- Dares Printed and Philologized: The Ebbs and Flows of a Forger's Fortunes -- Dares Survives: Webs of Misattribution and the Persistence of the Distant Past -- Conclusion: The Perennial Quarrel: Dares between Ancients and Moderns, Truth and Falsehood.. - "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 the Trojan War. From late antiquity (when most scholars today now agree that the extant Latin version of the text was written) to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, this study charts the many surprising twists and turns in the afterlife of an author long considered the first of the pagans to write history. It examines the subversive challenge that Dares posed to other ancient canonical traditions (especially the poetry of Homer and Virgil), and the manner in which Dares' bold rewriting of the Troy story enabled centuries of postclassical readers to forge their own-sometimes radical-visions of the distant past. In doing so The First Pagan Historian moves back and forth between the ancient world itself and various moments in the Middle Ages and the early modern period, using the fortunes of a forged text to interrogate approaches to history, fiction, myth, philology, criticism, authorship and numerous other topics of profound importance to the interplay between antiquity and modernity"--
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| ISBN | 9780190492304
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