Scott McGill is currently interim director of the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. He is the author of Virgil Recomposed: The Mythological and Secular Virgilian Centos in Antiquity (2005) and co-editor of From the Tetrarchs to the Theodosians: Later Roman History and Culture, 284-450 CE (with Cristiana Sogno and Edward Watts, Cambridge University Press, 2010).
1. The ancient and the modern: approaching plagiarism in Latin literature
Part I. Accusations: 2. Blame and praise: plagiarism and self-promotion in Latin prefaces
3. Playing the victim: Martial on the plagiarism of his poetry
Part II. Denials: 4. Plagiarism on the stage: Terence, literary controversy, and the theater
5. A spectrum of innocence: denying plagiarism in Seneca the Elder
6. Saving the hero: Virgil, plagiarism, and canonicity
Conclusion.