Panel at the Celtic Conference in Classics: “Forging Authorship in Roman Culture”

Cardiff, 9–11 July 2024

Tommaso Ricchieri, Cicero the Love Poet? An Epigram Quoted by Pliny and the Question of Authenticity

Robert Matera, The Untruthful and Unauthorized Autobiography of Propertius: The Monobiblos Sphragis and Propertian Authorship

Coralie Santomaso, Between Tradition and Fanfiction: Authenticity and Forgery in Ancient Biographies of Vergil

Sandro La Barbera, Like a Vergil: Culex and the Canon

Elena Castelnuovo, A Tough Nut to Crack: The Authorship of the Pseudo-Ovidian Nux

Stefano Briguglio, Leviora Studia: Literary Genres And Chronology in ‘Senecan’ Epigrams

Laurens van der Wiel, Anecdote Collections and Authenticity: Plutarch’s Apophthegmata

Marco Formisano, Forging Origins, Challenging Roots: The Late-Antique Origo Gentis Romanae

Cristina Montesano, Forged Friendship: The Apocryphal Correspondence of Paul and Seneca in Medieval Culture

Mads Lindholmer, A Complex Forgery: The Historia Augusta and Late Roman Court Ceremonial

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