ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Collaboration and Pseudepigraphy. Facing the Anonymous in Imperial Greek Literature
In Classical Philology, a discipline which has long relied on the figure of the author, authorless texts are an ‘elephant in the room’. In antiquity, however, long before the introduction of copyright, texts were the universal commons of all those who drew on them. Authorship was frequently faked, forged, or anonymized. Because authorless texts resist the author-based gravitational structure of literary history, they continue to pose a challenge to scholars in the field and have often been marginalized. COLLAPSE tackles this problem by providing a new methodological basis for situating authorless texts in Greek studies. Imperial Greek literature in particular serves as a fertile ground to…
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