When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400 BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic 'Heraclides is ignorant of letters') to humiliate an academic rival, he paved the way for two millennia of increasingly outlandish literary hoaxers. This book pre
When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400 BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic 'Heraclides is ignorant of letters') to humiliate an aca...