Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue/Volume Retrospect: Ergo decipiatur -- Libertine Erudition: José Marchena's Fragmentum Petronii and the Power of False -- Lucretius Auctus? The Question of Interpolation in De Rerum Natura -- Authorless Authority in Plato's Theaetetus -- The Poet and the Forger: On Nonnus' False Biography by Constantine Simonides -- "Genuine" and "Bastard" Dialogues in the Platonic Corpus: An Inquiry into the Origins and Meaning of a Concept* -- Female Voice, Authorship, and Authority in Eudocia's Homeric Centos -- The Surgical Treatises of the Corpus Hippocraticum: Statistical Linguistics and Authorship -- True Plautus, False Plautus Pellio Restitutus - Uxor Excisa. Annotations to Plautus' Bacchides -- Athena and Pallas, Image, Copies, Fakes, and Doubles -- Hippias of Elis: Lessons from One Master Forger -- Reading the Fraudulent Text: Thessalus of Tralles and the Book of Nechepso -- Hapax Legomena in the "Speeches of Apollodoros" and their Relation to the Corpus Demosthenicum -- Language and (in-)Authenticity: The Case of the (Ps.-)Lucianic Onos -- SH 906 and the Apollo of Simias of Rhodes: Some Isues of (mis‑)Attribution -- Order, Ambiguity, and Authority in Venantius Fortunatus, Carm. 3.26 -- Authors Pseudonyms in the Seventeenth Century: The Case of Gaspar Scioppio -- Pseudepigraphy and Magic -- The Sophists' Place in the Greek Wisdom Tradition -- Forging Ancient Greek Words in Modern Times.