Language and (in-)Authenticity
The Case of the (Ps.-)Lucianic Onos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20056697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 195-205 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Fakes and Forgers of Classical Literature (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004266421_014 |
| OpenAlex | W804623809 |
| ISBN | 9789004266421 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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 for authenticity the fundamental identity of what both the Onos and Lucian of Samosata's prominent other writings want to demonstrate to their audience. The most straightforward explanation for these peculiarities is that the writer of the Onos is not a Lucian who seems mysteriously bent on expressing things differently from all of his other writings, but that he isn't Lucian at all. Keywords: authenticity; linguistic discrepancies; Lucian of Samosata; Niklas Holzberg; Onos ; Tanaquil Faber
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Sociology · Chemistry · Classical Antiquity Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |