Word: phrygian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...freshman class. The speaker said that when the distinctly Greek civilzation passed away, Homer fell into disuse and Virgil took his place. For little was known about Homer at that time and the translations were poor. About this time spurious poems by Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian appeared and for a long time these were thought more trustworthy than the Homeric poems. In these two poems the Trojans were famed, not the Greeks as in Homer, and the number of persons who were killed was estimated at 676,000 Trojans, and 886,000 Greeks. Shakespeare is said...