The rhetoric of the Roman fake Latin pseudepigrapha in context
Previous scholarship on classical pseudepigrapha has generally aimed at proving issues of attribution and dating of individual works, with little or no attention paid to the texts as literary artefacts. Instead, this book looks at Latin fakes as sophisticated products of a literary culture in which...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2012.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42037712*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1. Literary fakes and their ancient reception
- 2. Constructing the young Virgil: the Catalepton as pseudepigraphic literature
- 3. Poets and patrons: Catalepton 9, the Panegyricus Messallae, the Laus Pisonis and the pseudo-panegyric
- 4. Prefiguring Virgil: the Ciris
- 5. Recreating the past: the Consolatio ad Liviam and Elegiae in Maecenatem
- Epilogue. Towards a rhetoric of the Roman fake: the Helen episode in Aeneid 2.
