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The Art of the True-False:  Konstantinos Simonides and the Making of Philology

The Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

is pleased to invite you to the symposium


The Art of the True-False:

Konstantinos Simonides and the Making of Philology


Luciano Canfora, University of Bari

Aldo Corcella, University of Basilicata

Massimo Pinto, University of Bari

Stamatis Bussès, University of Thrace

Carmelo Nicolò Benvenuto, University of Basilicata


Monday, January 26, 2026

16:30 - 20:30 (Greece)

9:30 - 13:30 (U.S. EST)


Cotsen Hall

9, Anapiron Polemou Street, Athens

& Online

The Art of the True–False: Konstantinos Simonides and the Making of Philology seeks to re-evaluate one of the most controversial and fascinating figures of nineteenth-century scholarship. Philologist, forger, and self-styled discoverer of lost manuscripts, Konstantinos Simonides (1820–1890) embodied the tensions of his time: between erudition and deceit, Hellenism and modernity, archaeology and imagination.

Through a series of contributions by philologists from Italy and Greece, the symposium will explore Simonides’s ambiguous legacy — from the construction of his European myth to his paradoxical dialogue with the ideals of modern philology — and will address the persistent question of what separates the true from the false in the making of textual history.

The presentations will be in English.

 
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