Dares

Dares Phrygius i.e Dares of Phrygia (Ancient Greek: Δάρης), according to Homer, was a Trojan priest of Hephaestus. In the Iliad, his two sons, Idaeus and Phegeus, rode out to fight the Achaean hero Diomedes. After Diomedes killed Phegeus, Idaeus was rescued by Hephaestus, who wrapped him in a cloud of darkness.

He was later thought to have been the author of an account of the destruction of Troy. A work in Latin, purporting to be a translation of this, and entitled Daretis Phrygii de excidio Troiae historia, was much read in the Middle Ages, and was then ascribed to Cornelius Nepos, who is made to dedicate it to Sallust; but the language better fits a period much later than the time of Nepos (probably the 5th century AD).