First Pagan Historian

In The History of the Destruction of Troy, 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 really happened at Troy ? precise casualty figures, no ment...