List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction - Juliana Bastos Marques (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Federico Santangelo (Newcastle University, UK) Part I: Ancient Models 1. Authority and Authenticity – John Marincola (Florida State University, USA) 2. Poetry as History: The Authority of Lucan as a Historian – Leni Ribeiro Leite (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil) 3. Truth and History – Roger Chartier (Collège de France, Paris, France) 4. 1. The Time of Restitution of All Things: Past as Future in Michael Servetus– Elaine Cristine Sartorelli (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) Part II: Modern Questions 5. Classics and Western civilization: The Troubling History of an Authoritative Narrative – Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University, USA) 6. ‘The Society that Separates its Scholars from its Keyboard Warriors…’: Tracking Thucydides on Twitter – Neville Morley (University of Exeter, UK) 7. Is Livy a Good Wikipedian? AuthorityandAudienceinAncientHistoriography and Contemporary Anonymous Writing – Juliana Bastos Marques (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 8. The New Agora? Online Communities and a New Rhetoric – Catalina Popescu (Texas Tech University, USA) 9. Classical Literature and Contemporary Classics – Ayelet Haimson Lushkov (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) Notes Bibliography Index