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Despite his alleged cruelties, Phalaris gained in medieval times a certain literary fame as the supposed author of an epistolary corpus. [5] In 1699, Richard Bentley published an influential Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris, in which he proved that the epistles were misattributed and had actually been written around the 2nd century AD.
In 1697, William Wotton, about to bring out a second edition of his Ancient and Modern Learning, asked Bentley to write out a paper exposing the spuriousness of the Epistles of Phalaris, long a subject of academic controversy. [4] The Christ Church editor of Phalaris, Charles Boyle, resented Bentley's paper. He had already quarrelled with ...
Aristolochus (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστόλοχος) was a tragic poet who is mentioned only in the collection of the Epistles formerly attributed to Phalaris, the tyrant of Akragas, where the tyrant is made to speak of him with indignation for venturing to compete with him in writing tragedies.
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play.
Phalaris I Phalaris 1: A paradoxical defence of the notorious tyrant Phalaris. Φάλαρις Β Phalaris II Phalaris 2: The second part of the above. Ἱππίας ἢ Βαλανεῖον Hippias Hippias or The Bath: A description of a Roman bath-house. Διόνυσος Bacchus Dionysus: A short essay about the god Dionysus and his journey to ...
Title page of the second edition of The Passionate Pilgrim (1599), from a copy in the Huntington Library. The Passionate Pilgrim (1599) is an anthology of 20 poems collected and published by William Jaggard that were attributed to "W. Shakespeare" on the title page, only five of which are considered authentically Shakespearean.
"Shakespeare" reads about a Jesuit plot to kill the King! From the Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, nr. 4200972. The Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery is the premier library collection in the world that is dedicated entirely to the subject of textual fakery and imposture.
Pseudepigrapha are falsely attributed works, texts whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past. [1] Some of these works may have originated among Jewish Hellenizers, others may have Christian authorship in character and origin.