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AdamJ.Goldwyn
NorthDakotaStateUniversity
TeTrojanWarfromRometoNewRome:
TereceptionofDictysofCrete’s
EphemerisBelliTroiani
inIoannesMalalas’Chronicle
GiventheprominenceoftheinfluenceofHomerandhis
epicsinByzantineliteratureandeducation
1,itisperhaps
surprisingthat,fromanearlyperiodintheByzantinehis-
toriographicaltradition,writingabouttheTrojanWaritself,
particularlyinlessscholarlycontexts,didnotdirectlyuse
Homer’saccountatallbutratherusedthefirstcenturyCE
EphemerisBelliTroianiofDictysofCrete
2.Oneoftheear-
1
See,forexample,BROWNING,1975andI.NILSSON,2004asintro-
ductionstothisvastsubject.
2
Fordating,seeBENSON,1980:3;FRAZER,1966:3;LUMIANSKY,
1969:200and205,andesp.MERKLE,1996:577,whoarguesforafourth
centuryLatinversionofDictys.MERKLE,1989:263–283containsamore
elaboratediscussionofthedating.AsMerklenotes,criticalopinion
oftheliterarymeritsofthisworkandtheonetowhichitisoftencom-
pared,DaresthePhrygian’sDeExcidioTroiaHistoria,hasnotbeenkind:
HTherewascompleteagreementonthepoorliteraryqualityofthetexts”
(1994:184).Perhapsbecauseofthelowestimationoftheirliterarymerit,
coupledwiththeirdiscreditedclaimstohistoricalauthenticityand
factualaccuracy,theseworkshavebeenlargelyignoreduntilrecently,
exceptinsofarastheybearonthemedievaltraditionthatdrewsoheav-
ilyfromthem,forwhich,see,forexample,GRIFFITH,1907andBENSON,
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