Iscanus, Josephus
Works
A Latin Poem on the Trojan War
the author of a Latin poem on the Trojan war, in six books, in hexameter metre. This poem has sometimes been ascribed to Cornelius Nepos, for which reason it is mentioned here, but its author was a native of England, and lived in the twelfth century of our era.
Editions
It is printed at the end of the edition of Dictys Cretensis, published at Amsterdam, in 1702.
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