Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity : : Problems of Authority from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance / / ed. by Roberta Berardi, Martina Filosa, Davide Massimo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Berardi, Roberta,; Bertocchini, Pietro,; Bonollo, Elena,; Calvano, Chiara,; Cattaneo, Gianmario,; De Martin, Sara,; Donato, Marco,; Filosa, Martina,; Lorito, Rosa,; Mambelli, Anna,; Massimo, Davide,; Merisio, Elisa Nuria,; Nicolardi, Federica,; Reggiani, Nicola,; Rocchi, Linda,; Teofilo, Anna Dorotea,; Zaccaria, Pietro,
• HerausgeberIn: Berardi, Roberta,; Filosa, Martina,; Massimo, Davide,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde , 385
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 339 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Attribution -- Semonides or Simonides? A Century–Long Controversy over the Authorship of a Greek Elegiac Fragment -- Greek Readers’ Digests (Again)? Some Lysianic ὑποθέσεις on P. Oxy. 31.2537 -- Defining a ‘Pseudo–Plato’ Epigrammatist -- Distinguishing Homonymous Writers, Detecting Spurious Works: Demetrius of Magnesia’s On Poets and Authors with the Same Name -- ‘On Sail–Flying Ships Did I Roam the Great Sea…’: The Epitaph of an Anonymous Merchant from Brundisium -- When the Author Is Not Identifiable: The Case of the Volcei Land– Register -- Part 2: Authorship -- Theognis the Author, Traditional Wisdom, and Some Side Effects of Authority -- Beyond the Scribal Error: Clues on the History of Philodemus’ On Rhetoric, Book 1 -- The ‘Co–Authorial’ Role of Ancient Pupils, Excerptores, and Copyists in the Genuinely Menandrean Γνῶμαι μονόστιχοι -- ΛΑΒΕ ΤΗΝ ΓΡΑΦΗΝ! Book Format, Authority, and Authorship in Ancient Greek Medical Papyri -- Defensio Bessarionis: Giorgio Benigno Salviati and the Concept of Authorship in Cardinal Bessarion’s Circle -- Part 3: Authenticity -- Can Virtue Be Taught? -- Reshaping Socrates’ Authority in the Pseudoplatonica -- Letter 1 of Demosthenes and the Prayer to the Gods -- The Second Epistle of Peter: A Different Approach to Lexical Analysis -- Forged Inscriptions in Early Epigraphic Corpora -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index