The First Pagan Historian: The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9780190492304 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 366 str.

Frederic Clark

Recenzje

In this marvelous book, Frederic Clark traces the making and reception of a forgery — a very popular and durable work by one Dares the Phrygian, which told the story of the Trojan War from the losing side. He introduces the reader to the extraordinary characters — scribes and printers, chroniclers and poets — who kept Dares' account alive for many centuries, and the scholars who came to see it as a fake. He challenges conventional ideas about the borders between forgery and fiction, and medieval and Renaissance scholarship. And he does it all in graceful, readable prose.

O autorze

Frederic Clark is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California.