Gli epigrammi di Platone. Studio introduttivo, edizione e commento

Ancient tradition ascribes to Plato a group of epigrams, now widely regarded as spurious. Yet their transmission raises intriguing questions: why were they associated with the philosopher’s name, by whom, and in what contexts? This volume offers the first comprehensive study of the epigrams falsely attributed to Plato. It presents a new critical edition of the corpus, together with an extensive commentary and an introduction that retraces its history, reception, and the reasons for its attribution. The investigation combines philological and exegetical analysis with an exploration of the texts’ circulation and the literary and philosophical reception of a layered corpus, which reflects diverse practices of falsification, reworking, and misattribution. This perspective opens up less explored aspects of the Platonic tradition.