{"product_id":"first-pagan-historian-frederic-clark-9780190492304","title":"The First Pagan Historian: The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment","description":"In \u003cem\u003eThe History of the Destruction of Troy\u003c\/em\u003e, Dares the Phrygian boldly claimed to be an eyewitness to the Trojan War, while challenging the accounts of two of the ancient world's most canonical poets, Homer and Virgil. For over a millennium, Dares' work was circulated as the first pagan history. It promised facts and only facts about what \u003cem\u003ereally\u003c\/em\u003e happened at Troy -- precise casualty figures, no mention of mythical phenomena, and a claim that Troy fell when Aeneas and other Trojans betrayed their city and opened its gates to the Greeks. But for all its intrigue, the work was as fake as it was sensational. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the late antique encyclopedist Isidore of Seville to Thomas Jefferson, \u003cem\u003eThe First Pagan Historian\u003c\/em\u003e offers the first comprehensive account of Dares' rise and fall as a reliable and canonical guide to the distant past. Along the way, it reconstructs the central role of forgery in longstanding debates over the nature of history, fiction, criticism, philology, and myth, from ancient Rome to the Enlightenment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frederic Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190492309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190492304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Frederic Clark","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43943066960127,"sku":"9780190492304","price":92.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9108c2af-7212-429d-9937-0d4e52b18dcb.jpg?v=1681496024","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/first-pagan-historian-frederic-clark-9780190492304","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}