Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Peirano Garrison, Irene, 1979-

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012, ©2012.

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Details

Description

x, 311 pages; 24 cm

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"--

Subject

• Virgil > Spurious and doubtful works
• Tibullus > Spurious and doubtful works
• Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Spurious and doubtful works
• Messalla Corvinus, Marcus Valerius, 64 B.C-approximately 8 A.D. > In literature
• Appendix Vergiliana
• Consolatio ad Liviam
• Literary forgeries and mystifications > History > To 1500
• Latin poetry > History and criticism
• Authorship, Disputed
• Rhetoric, Ancient

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 12-7368

ISBN

• 9781107000735 (hardback)
• 1107000734 (hardback)

LCCN

2012013656

OCLC

YBP 2012013656

Author

Peirano Garrison, Irene, 1979- author.

Title

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

Imprint

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012, ©2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 12-7368