Dares Phrygius

Dares Phrygius,
a Trojan priest mentioned by Homer (Iliad, 5. 9). He was supposed to have been the author of an account of the fall of Troy of which a Latin prose version is extant. This work, De Excidio Troiae, dating probably from the 5th cent. AD , provided, together with the complementary history of Dictys Cretensis , the only detailed account of the Trojan War available in the medieval West. Everything written about Troy before the middle of the 17th cent. was to some extent dependent, directly or indirectly, on the narratives of Dares and Dictys.