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Sebastiano Timpanaro was one of the purest and most original minds of the second half of the twentieth century -- Perry Anderson Praise for Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome: Compelling, wide-ranging, provocative, and highly readable. aA voice of extraordinary vitality, urgency, and no little touch of humor. -- Lauren Curtis * Classical World * Praise for Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome: Intriguing and challenging. Geue has thought long and hard about literary anonymity and the challenge it presents to our scholarly practices, and his new book will repay the same thought on the part of its readers. The readings are close, illuminating and often brilliant, and the scholarship is scrupulous. -- William Fitzgerald, Professor of Latin at King’s College London * The Classical Review * Praise for Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome: Author Unknown is an important contribution to the field of authorship studies, and a stimulating book' that offers valuable insights and ideas. -- Markus Hafner * Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Praise for Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome: Geue's provocative book taps into the wilful anachronism of queer theory, resists compulsive contextualizing, and, in the traditions of radical feminism, it is wary of any idea of the omniscient, masterful critic. -- Victoria Rimell * Times Literary Supplement * Praise for Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome: A provocative, lively read. Insightful and stimulating. -- J. Mira Seo * The Journal of Roman Studies * Praise for Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome: Geue's readings are relentlessly smart, even when he lets himself stretch the boundaries of plausibility, and always stimulating: try the parade chapter on Phaedrus, or the impressive big thinking on classical scholarship in his introduction. They add up to a concerted assault on context and historicism in literary criticism (the 'historical critic' becomes something of a bogeyman) which should set sparks flying. -- Christopher Whitton * Greece and Rome * Praise for Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome: Geue mounts a powerful and meticulous case for a poetics of the unknown, setting up not just a new agenda for ancient texts, but an updated ethics for literary history itself. -- Irene Peirano, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Harvard University Praise for Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome: What is a text without context? Can we separate the art from the artist? How does the signature of an artist shape the ways in which we hate, love, or even forget an object? This innovative and sophisticated book engages with an array of imperial Roman works-from graffiti art to epic poetry-and asks us to embrace literary anonymity, in antiquity and in our own time. With disarming directness, Geue has challenged us to rethink our urge to uncover the 'real' author of ancient texts. -- Sarah E. Bond, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa Praise for Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome: In this engaging book, Geue inventively repositions uncertain authorship as a feature that adds, rather than detracts, from the richness of ancient texts. You may not immediately notice how thoroughly he subverts some of the most basic assumptions about the centrality of historical context in Classical Studies. -- Donna Zuckerberg, author of Not All Dead White Men Praise for Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity: This book is a tour de force of superb writing and meticulous scholarship. It is rare to find a book about Juvenal which is almost as lively as the old satirist himself, but Geue certainly comes closer than the rest of us manage.. The argument is superbly sustained and Geue has many excellent things to say. The style of this book is eminently readable and entertaining. I found myself laughing out loud in many places-a treat which reviewers of classical books do not enjoy very often. Throughout the book Geue pays great attention to making his own text readable and jargon-free and he maintains an air of excitement and passion for the text under scrutiny which is as infectious as it is impressive. There is not a dull sentence anywhere and all students of this wonderful poet will find this book invigorating and enlightening. -- John Godwin, Retired Head of Shrewsbury School Classics * Classics for All * Praise for Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity: In this dynamic era, Geue has made a unique contribution complete with original readings of Juvenal's text and thoughtful use of Juvenal scholarship of all eras and stripes, including the latest-breaking. -- Catherine Keane, Associate Professor of Classics, Washington University in St Louis: * Classical Philology * Praise for Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity: In this wide-ranging and well-written study Geue has staged an enlightening encounter with the satirist as Anon, an encounter that resonates all the more loudly in an era when the dangers of producing satire, even in notionally benign settings, are ever more apparent. -- David Larmour, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Classics at Texas Tech University * The Classical Review * Praise for Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity: This subtle and sensitive study presents - not without self-irony - an intriguing and thought-provoking thesis. -- Christine Schmitz, Professor of Classical Philology, University of Münster * The Journal of Roman Studies *