hen 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
The famous fakes and fakers of literary history.When Dionysius the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400 BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic “Heraclides is ignorant of letters”) to humiliate an acad