Favorinus (ca. 80-160), writer of the Second Sophistic, is attributed authorship of the Corinthian Speech in the corpus of Dio Chrysostom. There is scholarly consensus on this, but the arguments are based solely on internal criteria. A reference to an author of a Corinthian speech is found in a collection of sayings in cod. Vat. gr. 1144. I argue that a reference to an author of a Corinthian speech in this is a unique external reference to Favorinus as author of the speech.

Organizer: Maria Plaza
Contact: Romklass, Classics

*The seminar will be hybrid: members of the department may find the zoom link in the RomKlass calendar; those wishing to participate virtually from outside may write to maria.plaza@su.se for access.