Tenue est mendacium : rethinking fakes and authorship in classical, late antique & early Christian works /

Many new and fruitful avenues of investigation open up when scholars consider forgery as a creative act rather than a crime. We invited authors to contribute work without imposing any restrictions beyond a willingness to consider new approaches to the subject of ancient fakes, forgeries and question...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lennartz, Klaus (Editor), MartiÌ?nez GarciÌ?a, Francisco Javier, 1965- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Groningen, the Netherlands : Barkhuis Publishing, [2021].
Subjects:	Forgery of antiquities. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Table of Contents:

Tenue est mendacium: introduction / Klaus Lennartz. Greek Literature. What a cruel bee! Authority and anonymity in Pseudo-Theocritus's Idyll 19 / Diego De Brasi
The Periplus of Hanno: dubious historical document, fascinating travel text / Jonathan S. Burgess
The forgery of the stoic Diotimus / Mario Capasso
Fake and forgotten: the true story of Apollodoros, the son of Pasion / Kostas Kapparis
The Athenian decree contained in the Corpus Hippocraticum / Mikel Labiano
Two birds with one stone: Thuc. 2. 41 and the Nauarchs Monument / Klaus Lennartz
From Plato to Paul Schliemann: dubious documents on the "history" of Atlantis / Heinz-GuÌˆnther Nesselrath - Confessions of a literary forger: reading the letters of Mithridates to Brutus / Kathryn Tempest
An interpolator praising forgers? Dionysius of Halicarnassus on the Pythagoreans (On Imitation, Epitome 4) / Alessandro Vatri. Latin Literature. "Why not Cicero?" The Spuriae I. De Exilio / John Henderson
Framing the speaker: [Sallust] Against Cicero / Jared Hudson - The poet as a forger: fakes and literary imitation in Roman poetry / Giuseppe La Bua
Mark Antony's will and his Pietas / J. Ignacio San Vicente. Late Antique and Early Christian works. Falsehoods and distortions in the transmission of the New Testament text / Esteban CalderoÌ?n Dorda
Forging the faith: pseudo-epistolography in Christian Late Antiquity / Bronwen Neil
Two forged letters and the heirs of Athanasius and Lucifer / Colin M. Whiting. Epigraphy and archaeology. False positive: testing the authenticity of Latin graffiti in ancient Pompeii / Peter Keegan
Minoan fakes and fictions / Nicoletta Momigliano
Considerations on the judgement of Criminal Court No. 1 of Vitoria-Gasteiz on the IruÌ¨a-Veleia case / Ignacio RodriÌ?guez TeminÌƒo and Ana YaÌ?nÌƒez.