At 09:00 2-02-99 -0500, you wrote:
> In response to Gert De Ceukelaire
>query in re: Jacob von Maerlant's
>Middle Dutch *Aeneid* --
> I suspect there is little doubt
>that this tradition emphasizing the
>treachery of both Aeneas and Antenor
>arises from the Dares and Dictys tradition.
> To Dares the Phyrgian is assigned
>the prose *De excidio Troiae historia*
>(5th-6th c. A.D.?), and to Dictys of Crete
>2nd-3rd c.?) the *Ephemeris belli Troiani*.
See also Ludo Jongen's Dissertation _Van Achilles tellen langhe_, Leiden
1988 (in Dutch),
on the way in which Maerlant adapted Statius' Achilleid for his _History
of Troy_, with many references to Dares, Dictys and Benoit.
Harm-Jan van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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