Frederic Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederic Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederic |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0839-4617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Knowledge Lost: A New View of Early Modern Intellectual History, written by Martin Mulsow
The Iliads of Pindar and Nepos: Codices, Canons and Misattributions in Medieval and Early Modern Scholarship
Late Antiquities in Early Modernity: Rome’s ‘Last Pagans’ in Early Modern Classical Scholarship
Scholarship of the last half century has transformed approaches to paganism and Christianity in the late Roman world. Much as the paradigm of late antiquity has replaced traditional narratives of ‘decline and fall’, expounded systematically in the eighteenth century by Edward Gibbon, so recent scholarship has also challenged older narratives of pagan / Christian conflict, particularly heroic narratives of the resistance mounted by Rome’s ‘last pa…
Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690–1750: Beyond the Ancients and the Moderns
Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690–1750: Beyond the Ancients and the Moderns. Floris Verhaart. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. x + 232 pp. $80. - Volume 75 Issue 1
The Perennial Quarrel: Dares between Ancients and Moderns, Truth and Falsehood
The Conclusion begins by bringing the story of Dares up to the decades around 1700. It considers both changes and continuities in Dares’ afterlife over the course of the preceding millennium. It then examines the neglected role of the Destruction of Troy in two developments long linked to the eighteenth century: namely, the origins of modern professionalized classical scholarship and the advent of a sense of “disenchantment” concerning the truth-…
Dares Forged: Histories Real and Imagined in the Classical and Late Antique Worlds
Chapter 1 begins with an examination of the early medieval encyclopedist Isidore of Seville, who christened Dares Phrygius the first pagan historian. It then moves back in time to consider the likely origins of the Destruction of Troy , and how those in both its supposed and actual milieux of composition (i.e., classical Rome of the first century BCE and late antiquity) defined the nature of history ( historia ) and distinguished history from fic…
The first pagan historian the fortunes of a fraud from antiquity to the Enlightenment: The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
The First Pagan Historian' traces the reception history of a text that is now largely neglected but once occupied a central role in the ancient canon - the De excidio Troiae historia or History of the Destruction of Troy of one Dares Phrygius, who claimed to have been an eyewitness observer of the Trojan War. From late antiquity (when most scholars today now agree that the extant Latin version of the text was written) to the eighteenth-century En…
Passing The Book: Cultures of Reading in the Winthrop Family, 1580-1730
Large numbers of annotated books that belonged to members of the Winthrop family — which included the founding governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and other individuals prominent in the early modern British Atlantic world — survive in libraries across the Northeastern United States. The notes in their margins reveal how the Winthrops responded to a vast array of material, from alchemical recipes to political tracts. Once deciphered and compa…
Authenticity, Antiquity, and Authority: Dares Phrygius in Early Modern Europe
Authenticity, Antiquity, and Authority: Dares Phrygius in Early Modern Europe Frederic Clark Dares Phrygius, “First Pagan Historiographer” In his Etymologies, Isidore of Seville—the seventh-century compiler whose cataloguing of classical erudition helped lay the groundwork for medieval and early modern encyclopedism—offered a seemingly straightforward definition of historiography, with clear antecedents in Cicero, Quintilian, and Servius.1 Before…
Authenticity, Antiquity, and Authority: Dares Phrygius in Early Modern Europe
Authenticity, Antiquity, and Authority: Dares Phrygius in Early Modern Europe Frederic Clark Dares Phrygius, “First Pagan Historiographer” In his Etymologies, Isidore of Seville—the seventh-century compiler whose cataloguing of classical erudition helped lay the groundwork for medieval and early modern encyclopedism—offered a seemingly straightforward definition of historiography, with clear antecedents in Cicero, Quintilian, and Servius.1 Before…
Passing The Book: Cultures of Reading in the Winthrop Family, 1580-1730
Large numbers of annotated books that belonged to members of the Winthrop family — which included the founding governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and other individuals prominent in the early modern British Atlantic world — survive in libraries across the Northeastern United States. The notes in their margins reveal how the Winthrops responded to a vast array of material, from alchemical recipes to political tracts. Once deciphered and compa…
Authenticity, Antiquity, and Authority: Dares Phrygius in Early Modern Europe
Authenticity, Antiquity, and Authority: Dares Phrygius in Early Modern Europe Frederic Clark Dares Phrygius, “First Pagan Historiographer” In his Etymologies, Isidore of Seville—the seventh-century compiler whose cataloguing of classical erudition helped lay the groundwork for medieval and early modern encyclopedism—offered a seemingly straightforward definition of historiography, with clear antecedents in Cicero, Quintilian, and Servius.1 Before…
Passing The Book: Cultures of Reading in the Winthrop Family, 1580-1730
Large numbers of annotated books that belonged to members of the Winthrop family — which included the founding governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and other individuals prominent in the early modern British Atlantic world — survive in libraries across the Northeastern United States. The notes in their margins reveal how the Winthrops responded to a vast array of material, from alchemical recipes to political tracts. Once deciphered and compa…
The Perennial Quarrel: Dares between Ancients and Moderns, Truth and Falsehood
The Conclusion begins by bringing the story of Dares up to the decades around 1700. It considers both changes and continuities in Dares’ afterlife over the course of the preceding millennium. It then examines the neglected role of the Destruction of Troy in two developments long linked to the eighteenth century: namely, the origins of modern professionalized classical scholarship and the advent of a sense of “disenchantment” concerning the truth-…
Dares Forged: Histories Real and Imagined in the Classical and Late Antique Worlds
Chapter 1 begins with an examination of the early medieval encyclopedist Isidore of Seville, who christened Dares Phrygius the first pagan historian. It then moves back in time to consider the likely origins of the Destruction of Troy , and how those in both its supposed and actual milieux of composition (i.e., classical Rome of the first century BCE and late antiquity) defined the nature of history ( historia ) and distinguished history from fic…
The first pagan historian the fortunes of a fraud from antiquity to the Enlightenment: The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
The First Pagan Historian' traces the reception history of a text that is now largely neglected but once occupied a central role in the ancient canon - the De excidio Troiae historia or History of the Destruction of Troy of one Dares Phrygius, who claimed to have been an eyewitness observer of the Trojan War. From late antiquity (when most scholars today now agree that the extant Latin version of the text was written) to the eighteenth-century En…
The Iliads of Pindar and Nepos: Codices, Canons and Misattributions in Medieval and Early Modern Scholarship
Late Antiquities in Early Modernity: Rome’s ‘Last Pagans’ in Early Modern Classical Scholarship
Scholarship of the last half century has transformed approaches to paganism and Christianity in the late Roman world. Much as the paradigm of late antiquity has replaced traditional narratives of ‘decline and fall’, expounded systematically in the eighteenth century by Edward Gibbon, so recent scholarship has also challenged older narratives of pagan / Christian conflict, particularly heroic narratives of the resistance mounted by Rome’s ‘last pa…
Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690–1750: Beyond the Ancients and the Moderns
Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690–1750: Beyond the Ancients and the Moderns. Floris Verhaart. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. x + 232 pp. $80. - Volume 75 Issue 1
Knowledge Lost: A New View of Early Modern Intellectual History, written by Martin Mulsow
History (9 works) · Classics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (4 works) · Classics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (3 works)