Scott Mcgill

Plagiarism in Latin Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the concept of plagiarism in Rome and the functions that accusations and denials had in Roman culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781107019379
• ISBN-10: 1107019370
• Artikelnr.: 35490767

Autorenporträt

Scott McGill is currently interim director of the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. He is the author of Virgil Recomposed: The Mythological and Secular Virgilian Centos in Antiquity (2005) and co-editor of From the Tetrarchs to the Theodosians: Later Roman History and Culture, 284-450 CE (with Cristiana Sogno and Edward Watts, Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The ancient and the modern: approaching plagiarism in Latin literature
Part I. Accusations: 2. Blame and praise: plagiarism and self-promotion in Latin prefaces
3. Playing the victim: Martial on the plagiarism of his poetry
Part II. Denials: 4. Plagiarism on the stage: Terence, literary controversy, and the theater
5. A spectrum of innocence: denying plagiarism in Seneca the Elder
6. Saving the hero: Virgil, plagiarism, and canonicity
Conclusion.