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The Trojan War: The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by R. M. Frazer (1966)
Acknowledgments
The present volume brings together for the first time in English translation the accounts of Dictys and Dares about the Trojan War. These works deserve our careful attention as the principal sources of the medieval Troy story and as examples of the anti-Homeric literature of late antiquity.
In the introduction I have briefly described the influence of our authors on later European literature, and have tried to show how our Latin texts depend on Greek originals. For the latter purpose I have found the scholarship of Nathaniel Edward Griffin especially rewarding for Dictys and that of Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg for Dares. I have used the notes to comment on matters of form (how our Latin texts probably differ from their Greek originals), to point out difficulties and inconsistencies, and to cite some of the sources and parallel versions of the stories that Dictys and Dares tell.
My grateful acknowledgment for kind advice and encouragement goes first of all to Graydon W. Regenos. Many thanks are also due to Robert M. Lumiansky, Sanford G. Etheridge, Gardner B. Taplin, Ronald E. White, and Robert P. Sonkowsky, all of whom gave me their help in various ways.
R. M. F.
Contents
Introduction
The Medieval Troy Story
The Anti-Homeric 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
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