Title The rhetoric of the Roman fake : Latin pseudepigrapha in context / Irene Peirano

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 311 pages) Contents Introduction -- 1. Literary fakes and their ancient reception -- 2. Constructing the young Virgil: the Catalepton as pseudepigraphic literature -- 3. Poets and patrons: Catalepton 9, the Panegyricus Messallae, the Laus Pisonis and the pseudo-panegyric -- 4. Prefiguring Virgil: the Ciris -- 5. Recreating the past: the Consolatio ad Liviam and Elegiae in Maecenatem -- Epilogue. Towards a rhetoric of the Roman fake: the Helen episode in Aeneid 2 Summary "Previous scholarship on classical pseudepigrapha has generally aimed at proving issues of attribution and dating of individual works, with little or no attention paid to the texts as literary artefacts. Instead, this book looks at Latin fakes as sophisticated products of a literary culture in which collaborative practices of supplementation, recasting and role-play were the absolute cornerstones of rhetorical education and literary practice. Texts such as the Catalepton, the Consolatio ad Liviam and the Panegyricus Messallae thus illuminate the strategies whereby Imperial audiences received and interrogated canonical texts and are here explored as key moments in the Imperial reception of Augustan authors such as Virgil, Ovid and Tibullus. The study of the rhetoric of these creative supplements irreverently mingling truth and fiction reveals much not only about the neighbouring concepts of fiction, authenticity and reality, but also about the tacit assumptions by which the latter are employed in literary criticism"-- Provided by publisher In-depth analysis of Roman literary fakes offering new insights into the creative dynamics of spurious literature Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-289) and indexes Notes English Print version record Subject Virgil -- Spurious and doubtful works Tibullus -- Spurious and doubtful works Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Spurious and doubtful works Messalla Corvinus, Marcus Valerius, 64 B.C.-approximately 8 A.D. -- In literature Messalla Corvinus, Marcus Valerius, 64 B.C.-approximately 8 A.D. Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Tibullus Virgil SUBJECT Appendix Vergiliana. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84208759 Consolatio ad Liviam. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92116825 Appendix Vergiliana fast Consolatio ad Liviam fast Subject Literary forgeries and mystifications -- History -- To 1500 Latin poetry -- History and criticism Authorship, Disputed. Rhetoric, Ancient. LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval. Authorship, Disputed Latin poetry Literary forgeries and mystifications Literature Rhetoric, Ancient Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Spurious and doubtful works Form Electronic book LC no. 2012013656 ISBN 9781139554183 1139554182 9786613922885 6613922889 9781139549226 1139549227 9780511732331 0511732333 9781139551724 1139551728 9781107527461 1107527465 1139564056 9781139564052 1139887211 9781139887212 1283610434 9781283610438 1139550470 9781139550475

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