Anyway, there are people who have suggested that all of Catullus, except the very few poems found in manuscripts other than V, was a 13th- or even 14th-century forgery.
Fascinating. I'd no idea anybody'd suggested such a thing.
I'm told there's a Russian conspiracy theorist who claims that all our classical and mediaeval history is the result of an effort by Westerners to hide the fact that everybody from Mongolia to Ireland was ruled by the Russian czar up until somewhere in the fifteenth century AD. Greco-Roman art was apparently all created by Renaissance-era forgers, but I've no notion what he has to say about their literature; however, considering he's reported to claim that stories of the Crusades, the Trojan War, and (I think) the exploits of Alexander the Great are all retellings of the same set of events, I'd assume there's some similar programme of literary forgery he'd have us to believe went on.
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Fascinating. I'd no idea anybody'd suggested such a thing.
I'm told there's a Russian conspiracy theorist who claims that all our classical and mediaeval history is the result of an effort by Westerners to hide the fact that everybody from Mongolia to Ireland was ruled by the Russian czar up until somewhere in the fifteenth century AD. Greco-Roman art was apparently all created by Renaissance-era forgers, but I've no notion what he has to say about their literature; however, considering he's reported to claim that stories of the Crusades, the Trojan War, and (I think) the exploits of Alexander the Great are all retellings of the same set of events, I'd assume there's some similar programme of literary forgery he'd have us to believe went on.