TY - CHAP
T1 - The documents in the Attic orators from antiquity to early-modern scholarship
T2 - Early antiquarians and unintentional forgers
AU - Canevaro, Mirko
N1 - Expected publication July 2020
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This chapter investigates the tradition of the documentary insertions found in the speeches of the Attic orators. First, it discusses their authenticity, at what point in time they were inserted in the corpora, and what their origin was - they originated in the context of Hellenistic rhetorical schools. Next, it turns to the issue of how they acquired such authority that they were considered authentic for centuries - it argues that the notion of their authenticity was strengthened by their permanence in the tradition, and transmission, of the speeches themselves, so that they were no longer recognised as separate.
AB - This chapter investigates the tradition of the documentary insertions found in the speeches of the Attic orators. First, it discusses their authenticity, at what point in time they were inserted in the corpora, and what their origin was - they originated in the context of Hellenistic rhetorical schools. Next, it turns to the issue of how they acquired such authority that they were considered authentic for centuries - it argues that the notion of their authenticity was strengthened by their permanence in the tradition, and transmission, of the speeches themselves, so that they were no longer recognised as separate.
UR - http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503588438-1
U2 - 10.1484/M.LECTIO-EB.5.119642
DO - 10.1484/M.LECTIO-EB.5.119642
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9782503588438
T3 - Lectio: Studies in the Transmission of Texts & Ideas
SP - 21
EP - 54
BT - Falsifications and Authority in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
A2 - Gielen, Erika
A2 - Papy, Jan
PB - Brepols
CY - Brussels
ER -