Forged Inscriptions in Early Epigraphic Corpora

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Attribution
6. Semonides or Simonides? A Century–Long Controversy over the Authorship of a Greek Elegiac Fragment 11
7. Greek Readers’ Digests (Again)? Some Lysianic ὑποθέσεις on P. Oxy. 31.2537 25
8. Defining a ‘Pseudo–Plato’ Epigrammatist 47
9. Distinguishing Homonymous Writers, Detecting Spurious Works: Demetrius of Magnesia’s On Poets and Authors with the Same Name 67
10. ‘On Sail–Flying Ships Did I Roam the Great Sea…’: The Epitaph of an Anonymous Merchant from Brundisium 85
11. When the Author Is Not Identifiable: The Case of the Volcei Land– Register 101
12. Part 2: Authorship
13. Theognis the Author, Traditional Wisdom, and Some Side Effects of Authority 111
14. Beyond the Scribal Error: Clues on the History of Philodemus’ On Rhetoric, Book 1 139
15. The ‘Co–Authorial’ Role of Ancient Pupils, Excerptores, and Copyists in the Genuinely Menandrean Γνῶμαι μονόστιχοι 151
16. ΛΑΒΕ ΤΗΝ ΓΡΑΦΗΝ! Book Format, Authority, and Authorship in Ancient Greek Medical Papyri 165
17. Defensio Bessarionis: Giorgio Benigno Salviati and the Concept of Authorship in Cardinal Bessarion’s Circle 175
18. Part 3: Authenticity
19. Can Virtue Be Taught? 191
20. Reshaping Socrates’ Authority in the Pseudoplatonica 205
21. Letter 1 of Demosthenes and the Prayer to the Gods 223
22. The Second Epistle of Peter: A Different Approach to Lexical Analysis 235
23. Forged Inscriptions in Early Epigraphic Corpora 257
24. Bibliography 273
25. List of Contributors 311
26. Index 313