Introduction / Juliana Bastos Marques
Part I. Ancient models. Authority and authenticity / John Marincola
Poetry as history : the authority of Lucan as a historian / Leni Ribeiro Leite
Truth and authority / Roger Chartier
The time of restitution of all things : past as future in Michael Servetus / Elaine C. Sartorelli
Part II. Modern questions. Classics and Western civilization : the troubling history of an authoritative narrative / Rebecca Kennedy
"The society that separates its scholars from its keyboard warriors..." : tracking Thucydides on Twitter / Neville Morley
Is Livy a good wikipedian? : authority and audience in ancient historiography and contemporary anonymous writing / Juliana Bastos Marques
The new agora? : online communities and a new rhetoric / Catalina Popescu
Classical literature and contemporary classics / Ayelet Haimson Lushkov.