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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.
He wrote the Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris (1699), his major academic work, almost accidentally. 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]
In 1749 he published The Epistles of Phalaris translated from the Greek; to which are added some select epistles of the most eminent Greek writers. His translation of the tragedies of Sophocles was long considered the best in the English language.
From the first ancient Greek “travel liars,” to the faked epistles of pseudo-Aristeas [3] and Phalaris, [4] fabricated “eye-witness” accounts of the Fall of Troy, and invented epigraphic inscriptions from ancient ruins that never existed, onwards to small oceans of extra-biblical pseudepigrapha, classical and biblical antiquity are ...
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.
Richard Bentley – A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris (prev. pub. in William Wotton's Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning); Samuel Clarke. Some Reflections on that part of a book called Amyntor, or a Defence of Milton's Life, which relates to the Writings of the Primitive Fathers, and the Canon of the New Testament
Two of the consolations are addressed to Lucilius: Epistle 63 [6] consoles him on the death of his friend Flaccus; Epistle 93 [7] consoles him on the death of the philosopher Metronax. Epistle 99 [8] consists largely of a copy of a letter Seneca wrote to his friend Marullus, [9] following the death of his "little son."
A further retort on the Modern side came from Richard Bentley, one of the pre-eminent scholars of the day, in his essay Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris (1699). The final words on the topic belong to Swift in his Battle of the Books (1697, published 1704) in which he makes a humorous defence on behalf of Temple and the cause of the ...