| Daretis Phrygii Ilias De bello Troiano | |
|---|---|
| byJoseph of Exeter | |
.jpg) Manuscript in theChester Beatty Library byBartolomeo Sanvito (late 15th century) | |
| Language | Latin |
| Genre | epic poem |
| Publication date | 1183 |
Daretis Phrygii Ilias De bello Troiano ("The Iliad of Dares the Phrygian: On the Trojan War") is anepic poem inLatin, written around 1183 by the English poetJoseph of Exeter.[1] It tells the story of the ten yearTrojan War as it was known in medieval western Europe. The ancient Greek epic on the subject, theIliad, was inaccessible; instead, the sources available included the fictional "diaries" ofDictys of Crete andDares of Phrygia. When Joseph's text was printed for the first time in 1541, it was actually erroneously attributed to Dares of Phrygia, announced as the long-lost verse version of his story (quibus multis seculis caruimus – which we lacked for many centuries) supposedly put into Latin hexameters byNepos.
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