Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity: Problems of Authority from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance

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Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity

Problems of Authority from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance

Edited by: Roberta Berardi , Martina Filosa and Davide Massimo

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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Volume 385 | Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

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This volume explores the themes of authorship and authenticity – and connected issues – from the Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance. Its reflection is constructed within a threefold framework. A first section includes topics dealing with dubious or uncertain attribution of ancient works, homonymous writers, and problems regarding the reliability of compilation literature. The middle section goes through several issues concerning authorship: the balance between the author’s contribution to their own work and the role of collaborators, pupils, circles, reviewers, scribes, and even older sources, but also the influence of different compositional stages on the concept of ‘author’, and the challenges presented by anonymous texts. Finally, a third crucial section on authenticity and forgeries concludes the book: it contains contributions dealing with spurious works – or sections of works – , mechanisms of interpolation, misattribution, and deliberate forgery. The aim of the book is therefore to exemplify the many nuances of the complex problems of authenticity and authorship of ancient texts.

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R. Berardi, University of Oxford, UK; M. Filosa, University of Cologne, Germany; D. Massimo, University of Oxford, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Roberta Berardi, Martina Filosa and Davide Massimo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part 1: Attribution
Semonides or Simonides? A Century–Long Controversy over the Authorship of a Greek Elegiac Fragment Elisa Nuria Merisio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
Greek Readers’ Digests (Again)? Some Lysianic ὑποθέσεις on P. Oxy. 31.2537 Linda Rocchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
Defining a ‘Pseudo–Plato’ Epigrammatist Davide Massimo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
Distinguishing Homonymous Writers, Detecting Spurious Works: Demetrius of Magnesia’s On Poets and Authors with the Same Name Pietro Zaccaria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
‘On Sail–Flying Ships Did I Roam the Great Sea…’: The Epitaph of an Anonymous Merchant from Brundisium Anna Dorotea Teofilo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
When the Author Is Not Identifiable: The Case of the Volcei Land– Register Rosa Lorito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
Part 2: Authorship
Theognis the Author, Traditional Wisdom, and Some Side Effects of Authority Sara De Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
Beyond the Scribal Error: Clues on the History of Philodemus’ On Rhetoric, Book 1 Federica Nicolardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
The ‘Co–Authorial’ Role of Ancient Pupils, Excerptores, and Copyists in the Genuinely Menandrean Γνῶμαι μονόστιχοι Elena Bonollo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
ΛΑΒΕ ΤΗΝ ΓΡΑΦΗΝ! Book Format, Authority, and Authorship in Ancient Greek Medical Papyri Nicola Reggiani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	165
Defensio Bessarionis: Giorgio Benigno Salviati and the Concept of Authorship in Cardinal Bessarion’s Circle Gianmario Cattaneo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Part 3: Authenticity
Can Virtue Be Taught? Pietro Bertocchini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
Reshaping Socrates’ Authority in the Pseudoplatonica Marco Donato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
Letter 1 of Demosthenes and the Prayer to the Gods Roberta Berardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	223
The Second Epistle of Peter: A Different Approach to Lexical Analysis Anna Mambelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
Forged Inscriptions in Early Epigraphic Corpora Chiara Calvano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	257
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	311
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313

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eBook published on:

October 26, 2020

eBook ISBN:

9783110684629

Hardcover published on:

October 26, 2020

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110684551

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Front matter:

9

Main content:

339

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5

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110684629

eBook ISBN: 9783110684629

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110684551

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Textual criticism; authenticity; authorship; classics

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Classical scholars, editors and textual critics, graduate students in Classics

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