Irene Peirano
Assistant Professor
She is currently preparing for publication her study of Roman literary fakes, or pseudepigrapha, which sets authorial and chronological fictions in the context of the practice of impersonation and role-play in the literary culture of the Imperial period, and explores the texts in light of both ancient and modern attitudes towards canonical authors such as Virgil, Tibullus and Ovid.
She has published on the figure of Scylla in Virgil, Eclogue 6, and has written entries on “Appendix Vergiliana”, “Pseudepigrapha” and “Plagiarism” for The Virgil Encyclopedia, R. F. Thomas and J. Ziolkowski eds., (forthcoming). Current projects include an article on the rhetoric of abuse in Carmina Priapea, a collection of obscene Latin epigrams, and another one on the ending of the Antiquitates Romanae and Dionysius’ argument about the Greekness of the Romans.
