The First Pagan Historian

The First Pagan Historian
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Total Pages : 367
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ISBN-10 : 9780190492304
ISBN-13 : 0190492309
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Book Synopsis The First Pagan Historian by : Frederic Clark

Download or read book The First Pagan Historian written by Frederic Clark and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Pagan Historian offers the first comprehensive account of Dares the Phyrgian, the infamous author of The History of the Destruction of Troy, tracing his afterlife from the late antique encyclopedist Isidore of Seville to Thomas Jefferson. Along the way, it reconstructs Dares' central place in longstanding debates over the nature of history, fiction, criticism, philology, and myth, from ancient Rome to the Enlightenment.


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