Classical scholarship tends to treat anonymous authorship as a problem or game-a defect to be repaired or mystery to be solved. But anonymity can be a source of meaning unto itself, rather than a gap that needs filling. Tom Geue's close readings of Latin texts show what the suppression or loss of a name can do for literature.
Classical scholarship tends to treat anonymous authorship as a problem or game-a defect to be repaired or mystery to be solved. But anonymity can be a...