Collaboration in Greek and Latin Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Spotlighting the significance of collaboration to Greek and Latin literature, this volume asks how our conceptions of ancient literary culture change if we privilege all the various collaborations which lead up to the production of a text. In so doing, it challenges the essentialisation of the author as the sole producer and creator of a literary work. The book builds on recent applications of network theory and distributed authorship to classical literature and is interested not just in the multiple agents of literary production, but also in the imbalances of power that they often entail. Simultaneously, it explores depictions of collaboration within Greek and Latin literature itself: what happens when we read not for competition and zero-sum games, but for moments of teamwork and working together? These two complementary approaches frequently intersect and speak to each other in productive ways.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-31
Vikt:250 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Classical Studies
Antal sidor:376
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009740197

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Talitha Kearey is Lecturer in Latin Literature at the University of St Andrews. She specialises in Roman literature and its reception, and is working on a monograph on the ancient reception of Virgil. Max Leventhal is Lecturer in Greek at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (Cambridge, 2022) and co-editor of 'Listen to the Sibyl': The History, Poetics, and Reception of the Sibylline Oracles (2026). He is completing a monograph on the Letter of Aristeas. Thomas J. Nelson is a Career Development Fellow in Ancient Greek at St Hilda's College, Oxford. He is the author of Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry (Cambridge, 2023) and co-editor of Hellenistic Aesthetics: Approaches and Frameworks (2024) and Pergamon and Rome: Culture, Identity, and Influence (2025).

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: working together Talitha Kearey, Max Leventhal and Thomas J. Nelson; Part I. Collaborative Authorship: 1. Gastromancers and sympoets: co-authorship and status hierarchy in Attic drama Tim Whitmarsh; 2. Sophocles & Sons: limits of collaboration in ancient biographical accounts of Attic tragedy Markus Hafner; 3. Collaboration in mathematical texts and practices: a distributed cognition approach Serafina Cuomo; 4. Deviant collaboration: Hirtius, Caesar and the Bellum Gallicum Rachel Lilley Love; 5. Freedom's compromise: Collaborating on Persius' life and works Talitha Kearey; Part II. Imagining Collaboration: 6. Networks of preservation in Homeric Epic Thomas J. Nelson and Matthew Ward; 7. Sappho, networked Barbara Graziosi; 8. The Nature and value of collaboration in Plato's Gorgias Frisbee Sheffield; 9. Collaboration in translation: the creation of the Septuagint in the Letter of Aristeas Max Leventhal; 10. The Heroides as pseudepigrapha: epistolary collaboration in Ovid Irene Peirano Garrison; 11. Collaboration and collaborationism in Roman Imperial literature Tom Geue.