Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity: Problems of Authority from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 385) - Hardcover

 
9783110684551: Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity: Problems of Authority from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 385)
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ISBN 10: 3110684551 ISBN 13: 9783110684551
Verlag: De Gruyter, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

R. Berardi, University of Oxford, UK; M. Filosa, University of Cologne, Germany; D. Massimo, University of Oxford, UK.

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Verlag
De Gruyter
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3110684551
ISBN 13 
9783110684551
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
348
Herausgeber
Berardi Roberta, Filosa Martina, Massimo Davide
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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