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Dares Phrygius

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Dares Phrygius , supposed author of a history of the Trojan War. Dares of Phrygia is mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as a priest of Troy. During the Middle Ages he was widely regarded as the author of De excidio Troiae historia [history of the destruction of Troy], which reputedly had been translated into Latin in the 5th cent. AD This work and the supposed diary of Dictys Cretensis became, through Benoît de Sainte-More's Roman de Troie, the most popular sources for medieval stories of the Trojan War.

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Dares Phrygius, a Trojan priest mentioned by Homer (Iliad, 5. 9). He was supposed to have been the author of De Excidio Troiae, an account of the fall of Troy dating probably from the 5th cent. ad. This work, together with the complementary history of Dictys Cretensis, provided the only detailed account of the Trojan War available in the medieval West.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Dares Phrygius." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Dares Phrygius." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-DaresPhrygius.html

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Dares Phrygius." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-DaresPhrygius.html

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