The rhetoric of the Roman fake : Latin pseudepigrapha in context / Irene Peirano.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: pages cmISBN:
  • 9781107000735
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 870.9/001 23
LOC classification:
  • PA3014.F6 P45 2012
Other classification:
  • LCO003000
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 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.
Summary: "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 collaborative practices of supplementation, recasting and role-play were the absolute cornerstones of rhetorical education and literary practice. Texts such as the Catalepton, the Consolatio ad Liviam and the Panegyricus Messallae thus illuminate the strategies whereby Imperial audiences received and interrogated canonical texts and are here explored as key moments in the Imperial reception of Augustan authors such as Virgil, Ovid and Tibullus. The study of the rhetoric of these creative supplements irreverently mingling truth and fiction reveals much not only about the neighbouring concepts of fiction, authenticity and reality, but also about the tacit assumptions by which the latter are employed in literary criticism"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 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.

"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 collaborative practices of supplementation, recasting and role-play were the absolute cornerstones of rhetorical education and literary practice. Texts such as the Catalepton, the Consolatio ad Liviam and the Panegyricus Messallae thus illuminate the strategies whereby Imperial audiences received and interrogated canonical texts and are here explored as key moments in the Imperial reception of Augustan authors such as Virgil, Ovid and Tibullus. The study of the rhetoric of these creative supplements irreverently mingling truth and fiction reveals much not only about the neighbouring concepts of fiction, authenticity and reality, but also about the tacit assumptions by which the latter are employed in literary criticism"--

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