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This book offers the hint for a new reflection on ancient textual
transmission and editorial practices in Antiquity.In the first
section, it retraces the first steps of the process of ancient
writing and editing. The reader will discover how the book is both
a material object and a metaphorical personification, material or
immaterial. The second section will focus on corpora of Greek
texts, their formation, and their paratextual apparatus. Readers
will explore various issues dealing with the mechanisms that are at
the basis of the assembling of ancient Greek texts, but great
attention will also be given to the role of ancient scholarly work.
The third section shows how texts have two levels of authorship:
the author of the text, and the scribe who copies the text. The
scribe is not a medium, but plays a crucial role in changing the
text. This section will focus on the protagonists of some
interesting cases of textual transmission, but also on the books
they manufactured or kept in the libraries, and on the words they
engraved on stones. Therefore, the fresh voices of the contributors
of this book, offer new perspectives on established research fields
dealing with textual criticism.
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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