Plagiarism in Latin Literature

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Scott McGill, McGill Scott
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.2020
• EAN: 9781108820172
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82017-2
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 380 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval