Fakes and Forgers of Classical Literature
Dados do Periódico
| Tipo | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Editora | Brill (NL) |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004266414 |
| Open Library | OL23331630W |
| Total de publicações | 7 |
| Período coberto | 2014 - 2014 |
| Idioma | EN |
"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."--
Lucretius auctus? The Question of Interpolation in De rerum natura
This chapter focuses on the active interpolation in Lucretius' poem De rerum natura (DRN) . The notion of spurious verses in Lucretius' great Epicurean poem has been known to its critics since the Renaissance but did not merit anything approaching a systematic theory until the turn of the nineteenth century, when Heinrich Eichstadt suggested that the whole of Lucretius' work had been improved and polished by a later author. The last leaf/leaves o…
“Genuine” and “Bastard” Dialogues in the Platonic Corpus
This chapter focuses on two themes: the language and images which ancient commentators used in dealing with the topic of Platonic imitations and the distinction between and spurious Platonica ; and the nature of those works which modern scholarship has identified as certainly or probably imitative. It investigates with a passage from Quintilian's book on rhetorical education. Although proposal to find the seeds of the metaphor of genuine and bast…
Fakes and Forgers of Classical Literature
"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 interdi…
Athena and Pallas, Image, Copies, Fakes, and Doubles
teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers.L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés
Reading the Fraudulent Text
Pseudo-documentary fictions are narratives which claim to be based on ancient documents. The Book of Nechepso is the anti-text of of Tralles' treatise: Nechepso's apparent charlatanry and ignorance contrast sharply with the integrity and expertise of Thessalus, the reliable author who has gone to such lengths to seek out authentic information which he then imparts to the reader, and who even shows that he is willing to die in the Egyptian desert …
Language and (in-)Authenticity
The criterion of language helps to solve a question vexing scholars for at least 350 years: In 1664, Tanaquil Faber seems to have been the first to express doubts about the authenticity of the story Lucius, or The Ass ( Onos ). A case in point is Niklas Holzberg's study of 1984, in which the author declares himself satisfied with Anderson's explanations of the linguistic discrepancies in the Onos and then seeks to establish as the main argument f…
SH 906 and the Apollo of Simias of Rhodes
This chapter shows the unlikeliness of R. Merkelbach's theory, highlighting the contradictions undermining such an ascription. It presents the text of the Supplementum Hellenisticum , with a few alterations. The chapter summarizes a variety of different views and approaches to text, and includes new suggestions by Peter Parsons privately communicated to the author. It has been noted that the passage draws significantly from the archaic formulaic …
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Lucretius auctus? The Question of Interpolation in De rerum natura
This chapter focuses on the active interpolation in Lucretius' poem De rerum natura (DRN) . The notion of spurious verses in Lucretius' great Epicurean poem has been known to its critics since the Renaissance but did not merit anything approaching a systematic theory until the turn of the nineteenth century, when Heinrich Eichstadt suggested that the whole of Lucretius' work had been improved and polished by a later author. The last leaf/leaves o…
“Genuine” and “Bastard” Dialogues in the Platonic Corpus
This chapter focuses on two themes: the language and images which ancient commentators used in dealing with the topic of Platonic imitations and the distinction between and spurious Platonica ; and the nature of those works which modern scholarship has identified as certainly or probably imitative. It investigates with a passage from Quintilian's book on rhetorical education. Although proposal to find the seeds of the metaphor of genuine and bast…
Fakes and Forgers of Classical Literature
"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 interdi…
Athena and Pallas, Image, Copies, Fakes, and Doubles
teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers.L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés
Reading the Fraudulent Text
Pseudo-documentary fictions are narratives which claim to be based on ancient documents. The Book of Nechepso is the anti-text of of Tralles' treatise: Nechepso's apparent charlatanry and ignorance contrast sharply with the integrity and expertise of Thessalus, the reliable author who has gone to such lengths to seek out authentic information which he then imparts to the reader, and who even shows that he is willing to die in the Egyptian desert …
Language and (in-)Authenticity
The criterion of language helps to solve a question vexing scholars for at least 350 years: In 1664, Tanaquil Faber seems to have been the first to express doubts about the authenticity of the story Lucius, or The Ass ( Onos ). A case in point is Niklas Holzberg's study of 1984, in which the author declares himself satisfied with Anderson's explanations of the linguistic discrepancies in the Onos and then seeks to establish as the main argument f…
SH 906 and the Apollo of Simias of Rhodes
This chapter shows the unlikeliness of R. Merkelbach's theory, highlighting the contradictions undermining such an ascription. It presents the text of the Supplementum Hellenisticum , with a few alterations. The chapter summarizes a variety of different views and approaches to text, and includes new suggestions by Peter Parsons privately communicated to the author. It has been noted that the passage draws significantly from the archaic formulaic …