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Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity - Problems of Authority from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance (Hardcover)
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Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity - Problems of Authority from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance (Hardcover)
Series: Beitrage zur Altertumskunde
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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.
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