BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//AT Content Types//AT Event//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260405T204626Z
CREATED:20150929T150831Z
UID:ATEvent-9469da6faa3f462a8955c1b2f0563c82
LAST-MODIFIED:20150929T153915Z
SUMMARY:The First Pagan Historian
DTSTART:20151006T220000Z
DTEND:20151006T233000Z
DESCRIPTION:This lecture examines several episodes in the neglected 15
 00-year afterlife of the forged "De excidio Troiae historia" or "Histo
 ry of the Destruction of Troy" of pseudo-Dares Phrygius. Although the 
 Latin "De excidio" was a late antique fabrication composed most likely
  in the fifth or sixth century CE\, its author claimed to be an eyewit
 ness to the Trojan War\, whose account of the conflict openly contradi
 cted such canonical sources as Virgil and Homer. Deemed by many to be 
 the first pagan to write history\, Dares infiltrated numerous domains 
 of literary culture in medieval and early modern Europe.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
CONTACT:isaw@nyu.edu
CLASS:PUBLIC
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
