Fakes and forgers of classical literature : ergo decipiatur! / edited by Javier Martinez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martínez García, Francisco Javier, 1965-

Series:

Metaforms 2.

Studies in the Reception of Classical Antiquity ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary forgeries and mystifications--History--To 1800.

Literary forgeries and mystifications.

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Libertine Erudition: José Marchena’s Fragmentum Petronii and the Power of the False / Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos

Lucretius auctus? The Question of Interpolation in De rerum natura / David Butterfield

Authorless Authority in Plato’s Theaetetus / Zina Giannopoulou

The Poet and the Forger: On Nonnus’ False Biography by Constantine Simonides / David Hernández de la Fuente

“Genuine” and “Bastard” Dialogues in the Platonic Corpus: An Inquiry into the Origins and Meaning of a Concept / Mark Joyal

Female Voice, Authorship, and Authority in Eudocia’s Homeric Centos / Andromache Karanika

The Surgical Treatises of the Corpus Hippocraticum: Statistical Linguistics and Authorship / Mikel Labiano

True Plautus, False Plautus. Pellio restitutus – uxor excisa. Annotations to Plautus’ Bacchides / Klaus Lennartz

Athena and Pallas, Image, Copies, Fakes, and Doubles / Françoise Létoublon

Hippias of Elis: Lessons from One Master Forger / Javier Martínez

Reading the Fraudulent Text: Thessalus of Tralles and the Book of Nechepso / Karen Ní Mheallaigh

Hapax Legomena in the “Speeches of Apollodoros” and their Relation to the Corpus Demosthenicum / Felipe G. Hernández Muñoz

Language and (in-)Authenticity: The Case of the (Ps.-)Lucianic Onos / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath

SH 906 and the Apollo of Simias of Rhodes: Some Issues of (mis‑)Attribution / Marco Perale

Order, Ambiguity, and Authority in Venantius Fortunatus, Carm. 3.26 / Joseph Pucci

Authors Pseudonyms in the Seventeenth Century: The Case of Gaspar Scioppio / Eustaquio Sánchez Salor

Pseudepigraphy and Magic / Emilio Suárez de la Torre

The Sophists’ Place in the Greek Wisdom Tradition / Håkan Tell

Forging Ancient Greek Words in Modern Times / Onofrio Vox

Index: names and subjects.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-26642-9

OCLC:

869519693

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004266421 DOI