Animo Decipiendi? : rethinking fakes and authorship in classical, late antique, & early Christian works / edited by Antonio Guzmán and Javier Martínez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guzmán, Antonio, editor.

Martínez, Javier, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian literature--Early works 1800--History and criticism.

Christian literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Groningen : Barkhuis, 2018.

Summary:

Many new and fruitful avenues of investigation open up when scholars consider forgery as a creative act rather than a crime. We invited authors to contribute work without imposing any restrictions beyond a willingness to consider new approaches to the subject of ancient fakes, forgeries and questions of authenticity. The result is this volume, in which our aim is to display some of the many possibilities available to scholarship. The exposure of fraud and the pursuit of truth may still be valid scholarly goals, but they implicitly demand that we confront the status of any text as a focal point for matters of belief and conviction. Recent approaches to forgery have begun to ask new questions, some intended purely for the sake of debate: Ought we to consider any author to have some inherent authenticity that precludes the possibility of a forger's successful parody? If every fake text has a real context, what can be learned about the cultural circumstances which give rise to forgeries? If every real text can potentially engender a parallel history of fakes, what can this alternative narrative teach us? What epistemological prejudices can lead us to swear a fake is genuine, or dismiss the real thing as inauthentic? Following 'Splendide Mendax', this is the latest installment of an ongoing inquiry, conducted by scholars in numerous countries, into how the ancient world - its literature and culture, its history and art - appears when viewed through the lens of fakes and forgeries, sincerities and authenticities, genuine signatures and pseudepigrapha. -- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction. Classical fakes and forgeries : wisdom from nobody? / Javier Martínez

Greek literature. Logography reconsidered : new issues on cooperative authorship in Attic oratory / Markus Hafner

"Relative Hapax" in the Corpus Demosthenicum / Felipe G. Hernández Muñoz

Forgery as art in the documents inserted in the Attic orators / Konstantinos Kapparis

"To sound like Plato" : profiling the seventh letter / Klaus Lennartz

Onomakritos, rhapsode : composition-in-performance and the competition of genres in 6th-century Athens / Richard P. Martin

Latin literature. Authorship and authority in the preface to Justin's Epitome of Trogus' Philippic histories / Jackie Elliott

Spurious manuscripts of genuine works : the cases of Cicero and Virgil / Thomas G. Hendrickson

Artistic authority and the impotency of art : a reading of Ausonius' third Preface / Joseph Pucci

Ea vera clementia erit : the Epistulae ad Caesarem in 1st century AD public discourse / Paul Reichetanz

Young Vergil's very first poetic exercises : some remarks on the pseudo-Vergilian Liber distichon (AL 250-257 Sh. B. = AL 256-263 R.) / Markus Stachon

Late antique and early Christian works. Facts, fakes, or fiction? : considering ancient quotations / Christina Abenstein

Historia and Fabula : Dares Phrygius between truth and fiction in the twelfth century / Frederic Clark

Tertullian's attack on the Valentinians and the rhetoric of fake / Luca Grillo

Forging the feel of ancient ethnography in Pseudo-Jerome's Cosmography of Aethicus Ister / Antti Lampinen

The author-translator : progress or problem? : Augustinus on the Vetus Latina and Jerome's Vulgata / Markus Mülke

Epigraphy. Latin inscriptions and the eighteenth-century art market / Caroline Barron

Fakes, forgeries, and authenticity : the curious case of Flora / Alison E. Cooley

Phantom travels : on the story of a Lycian inscription / Fritz Graf.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 13, 2019).

ISBN:

9789492444844

9492444844