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Title Fakes and Forgers of Classical Literature : Ergo decipiatur! / edited by Javier Martinez
Published Leiden : Brill, 2014

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Series Metaforms ; 2
Metaforms ; 2.
Contents Foreword; Prologue/Volume Retrospect: Ergo decipiatur; Libertine Erudition: José Marchena's Fragmentum Petronii and the Power of False ; Lucretius Auctus? The Question of Interpolation in De Rerum Natura ; Authorless Authority in Plato's Theaetetus; The Poet and the Forger: On Nonnus' False Biography by Constantine Simonides; "Genuine" and "Bastard" Dialogues in the Platonic Corpus: An Inquiry into the Origins and Meaning of a Concept*; Female Voice, Authorship, and Authority in Eudocia's Homeric Centos
The Surgical Treatises of the Corpus Hippocraticum: Statistical Linguistics and AuthorshipTrue Plautus, False Plautus Pellio Restitutus -- Uxor Excisa. Annotations to Plautus' Bacchides ; Athena and Pallas, Image, Copies, Fakes, and Doubles; Hippias of Elis: Lessons from One Master Forger; Reading the Fraudulent Text: Thessalus of Tralles and the Book of Nechepso; Hapax Legomena in the "Speeches of Apollodoros" and their Relation to the Corpus Demosthenicum; Language and (in- )Authenticity: The Case of the (Ps.- )Lucianic Onos
Summary Right from the beginning, classical literature has been embroiled with questions of authenticity, fakes, frauds, and, of course, scandal. Issues of dubious authorship, and contested authority confront philologists, critics and publishers today as surely as they did in the classical era itself. The new era of postmodernism, however, encourages us to look at the work of the forger with fresh eyes, and recent scholarship reflects this in an interdisciplinary approach which goes well beyond the conventional academic endeavor to separate the authentic from the fake. 'Fakes and Forgers of Classical Literature' comprises essays from an international cast of scholars who, in their diverse and creative approaches to questions of authenticity both old and new, radically revise the position of the forged text in the literary tradition and, in light of modern approaches of philology and literary criticism, offer exciting new strategies for understanding forgery and the play with authenticity within ancient literature itself
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Literary forgeries and mystifications -- History -- To 1800
Classical literature -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Classical literature
Literary forgeries and mystifications
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Martínez García, Francisco Javier, 1965- editor.
ISBN 9789004266421
9004266429
1306407273
9781306407274