Previous scholarship on classical pseudepigrapha has generally
aimed at proving issues of attribution and dating of individual
works, with little or no attention paid to the texts as literary
artefacts. Instead, this book looks at Latin fakes as sophisticated
products of a literary culture in which collaborative practices of
supplementation, recasting and role-play were the absolute
cornerstones of rhetorical education and literary practice. Texts
such as the Catalepton, the Consolatio ad Liviam and the
Panegyricus Messallae thus illuminate the strategies whereby
Imperial audiences received and interrogated canonical texts and
are here explored as key moments in the Imperial reception of
Augustan authors such as Virgil, Ovid and Tibullus. The study of
the rhetoric of these creative supplements irreverently mingling
truth and fiction reveals much not only about the neighbouring
concepts of fiction, authenticity and reality, but also about the
tacit assumptions by which the latter are employed in literary
criticism.
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