Dares Phrygius, attributed author. De Excidio Troiae Historia. Rome: Stephann Planck,1488.
Dares Phrygius, attributed author.
De Excidio Troiae Historia.
Rome: Stephann Planck,1488.
Quarto, text in gothic type, initials and capital strokes added in red; bound in modern half calf with marbled paper boards; ex libris John Rowden Freme (1823-1921) with his armorial bookplate; 7 3/8 x 5 in.
Goff D42; H 5959*; IGI 3310; Borm 876; Voull(B) 3433; Walsh 1409; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 657; BSB-Ink D-14; GW 7990; ISTC id00042000.
"Dares' history consists of an ill-assorted aggregation of meagre details, written in forty-four short chapters of barbarous Latin. The narrative opens with the Argonautic Expedition [from Homer's Iliad] and ends with the Destruction of Troy. No attempt is made to marshal events in a coherent or orderly sequence, and more space is devoted to occurrences antecedent to the Siege than to the Siege itself. The version of the different incidents is so brief that the determination of specific sources for each is impossible. In general, an invariably corrupt form of ancient tradition bears evidence of the use of late and impure sources. The history dates, presumably, from the sixth century A.D."
"Notwithstanding a total lack of intrinsic literary merit, Dares [...] enjoyed throughout the Middle Ages a widespread popularity --which equaled, if it did not surpass, that accorded to the three great rival tales of Arthur, Charlemagne, and Alexander. This popularity is to be ascribed primarily to the fact that [the] author claims that he has been an actual participant in the Trojan War and an eye-witness of the events he records." (Quoted from Nathaniel Edward Griffin's Dares and Dictys: An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Versions of the Story of Troy, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1907.)
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Dares Phrygius, attributed author.
De Excidio Troiae Historia.
Rome: Stephann Planck,1488.
Quarto, text in gothic type, initials and capital strokes added in red; bound in modern half calf with marbled paper boards; ex libris John Rowden Freme (1823-1921) with his armorial bookplate; 7 3/8 x 5 in.
Goff D42; H 5959*; IGI 3310; Borm 876; Voull(B) 3433; Walsh 1409; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 657; BSB-Ink D-14; GW 7990; ISTC id00042000.
"Dares' history consists of an ill-assorted aggregation of meagre details, written in forty-four short chapters of barbarous Latin. The narrative opens with the Argonautic Expedition [from Homer's Iliad] and ends with the Destruction of Troy. No attempt is made to marshal events in a coherent or orderly sequence, and more space is devoted to occurrences antecedent to the Siege than to the Siege itself. The version of the different incidents is so brief that the determination of specific sources for each is impossible. In general, an invariably corrupt form of ancient tradition bears evidence of the use of late and impure sources. The history dates, presumably, from the sixth century A.D."
"Notwithstanding a total lack of intrinsic literary merit, Dares [...] enjoyed throughout the Middle Ages a widespread popularity --which equaled, if it did not surpass, that accorded to the three great rival tales of Arthur, Charlemagne, and Alexander. This popularity is to be ascribed primarily to the fact that [the] author claims that he has been an actual participant in the Trojan War and an eye-witness of the events he records." (Quoted from Nathaniel Edward Griffin's Dares and Dictys: An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Versions of the Story of Troy, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1907.)
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