authorship in antiquity
If anybody needs me, I’ll be over here building an annotated bibliography on authorship in antiquity. Texts up for annotation are:
- Behme, Tim. Isocrates on the Ethics of Authorship.
- Burke, Sean. Reconstructing the Author.
- Davison, JA. Literature and Literacy in Ancient Greece.
- Foucault, Michel. What Is An Author?
- Gorgias. Gorgias.
- Havelock, Eric A. The Muse Learns to Write.
- Logie, John. ‘I Have No Predecessor to Guide My Steps: Quintilian and the Roman Constructon of Authorship.
- Long, Pamela O. Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and The Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
- Plato. Ion.
- Plato. The Republic (excerpts).
- Randall, Marilyn. Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and Power.
- Trevett, Jeremy. Did Demosthenes Publish His Deliberative Speeches?
- Woodmansee, Martha. The Genius and the Copyright.
- Young, Edward. Conjectures on Original Composition.
Suggestions for additions are welcome.
Comments
You might look into the publication circumstances of Cicero's Pro Milone and In Verrem, both of which were published without actually having been delivered. And while you're looking into Pliny, you might check out the Panegyricus, in which Pliny-as-author ties himself in knots trying to convince the emperor Trajan of his sincerity -- no easy task for authors under imperium. In addition to Pliny, Tacitus (in the Dialogus) and Juvenal (in the seventh satire) both illustrate the vexed interrelations among authorship, authorial persona, and truth.
Posted by: Mike | November 27, 2005 9:46 PM
I smell the makings of a coursepack in your future..
Posted by: Spirophita | December 1, 2005 2:18 PM