1573 Belli Troiani scriptores DICTYS CRETENSIS DARES PHRYGIUS HOMERUS antique

DICTYS CRETENSIS/DARES PHRYGIUS/HOMERUS.
Belli Troiani scriptores praecipui (…) omnes iampridem latio iure donati, nunc vero a mendis expurgati (…).

Basel, P. Perna; 1573

(8), 1042 pp.


Old panelled calf, spine with gilt decorated compartments, marbled endpapers

 (Joints split but holding, very neat annotations in pencil in an old hand in first half).

Size: 4 by 6.5 inches

Text in Latin
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Dares Phrygius , according to Homer, was a Trojan priest of Hephaestus.
He was later thought to have been the author of an account of the destruction of Troy.
A work in Latin, purporting to be a translation of this, and entitled Daretis Phrygii de excidio Troiae historia, was much read in the Middle Ages, and was then ascribed to Cornelius Nepos, who is made to dedicate it to Sallust; but the language better fits a period much later than the time of Nepos (probably the 5th century AD).

It is unknown whether the existing work is an abridgment of a larger Latin work or an adaptation of a Greek original. Together with the similar work of Dictys Cretensis (with which it is generally printed), the De excidio forms the chief source for the numerous medieval accounts of the Trojan legend, the so-called Matter of Troy. Dares claimed 866,000 Greeks and 676,000 Trojans were killed in this war, but archeology has uncovered nothing that suggests a war this large was ever fought on that site.

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