Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity - Problems of Authority from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Beitrage zur Altertumskunde
Release date:	October 2020
First published:	2020
Editors:	Roberta Berardi • Martina Filosa • Davide Massimo
Dimensions:	230 x 150mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	348
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-068455-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	3-11-068455-1
Barcode:	9783110684551

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