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

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

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, homonym...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 339 p.)
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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

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