Panel at the Society for Classical Studies “Forgery and Authenticity in the Classical Corpus”

San Francisco, 7–10 January 2026

Organizer: Sandro La Barbera

Elena Castelnuovo – Disrupted Authorship, Disrupted Nature. Pseudepigraphy and the Poetics of the Non-Human

Alessandra Tafaro – Venus enim plagiaria est. Rethinking genre, gender, and modes of authorial self-representation across Pompeii’s poetic landscapes

Sandro La Barbera – Ut punctura poesis. Visuality and authorial impersonation in the pseudo-Vergilian Culex

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