Author Unknown - The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome

Classical scholarship tends to treat anonymous authorship as a problem or game¿a defect to be repaired or mystery to be solved. But anonymity can be a source of meaning unto itself, rather than a gap that needs filling. Tom Geue¿s close readings of Latin texts show what the suppression or loss of a name can do for literature.

About the author

Tom Geue is a Classicist who writes about Latin literature from Virgil to Juvenal. He is Lecturer in Latin at the University of St Andrews and the author of Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity.

Summary

Classical scholarship tends to treat anonymous authorship as a problem or game—a defect to be repaired or mystery to be solved. But anonymity can be a source of meaning unto itself, rather than a gap that needs filling. Tom Geue’s close readings of Latin texts show what the suppression or loss of a name can do for literature.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Geue
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780674988200
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98820-0
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Rome, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval