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  • Homer and the Latin West in the Middle Ages

  • from Part III - Homer in the World
  • Edited by Corinne Ondine Pache
  • Edited in association with Casey Dué , University of Houston, Susan Lupack , Macquarie University, Sydney, Robert Lamberton, Washington University, St Louis
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Guide to Homer
    Published online:
    22 February 2020
    Print publication:
    05 March 2020, pp 435-443

  • Summary

    Manuscript copies of the Homeric epics were not available in Western Europe from the end of antiquity until the early modern period. In the absence of the Homeric epics, the matter of Troy was transmitted to the Latin West by three short Latin texts, the prose texts by Dares the Phygian, de excidio Troiae historia, Dictys the Cretan, Ephemeris belli Troiani, as well as the short verse epitome, the Ilias latina. From these texts a vast and imaginative textual tradition on the matter of Troy develops.