Sentence examples for spurious work from inspiring English sources

One may logically question the real meaning of the difference between a genuine and a spurious work of art when in many cases it requires such expert study to detect the difference between the two.

Thus it may be that Bacchae is the title of a spurious work and that Fr. 17 was mistakenly assigned to that work.

The work On the 'On Activity' by Zosimus; all that has been said by Hermes and the Philosophers should be regarded as a spurious work.

I develop an idea that I will interview him for some spurious work project and then with a recording device between us, talk to him about his life.

Pseudepigrapha are spurious works ostensibly written by a biblical figure.

In two instances we are given titles for the spurious works from which the fragments come.

Other books were forged in Philolaus' name at a later date, and the remaining fragments come from these spurious works.

In the Pythagorean tradition, on the other hand, where surely spurious works far outnumber genuine ones, the situation is reversed.

In the face of the large mass of spurious works, it is disappointing that only a few fragments of genuine works have survived.

If they really did exist, however, nothing is known about them, since all other reports in the ancient tradition are likely to be based on Plato's Timaeus or the spurious works in their name.

It is implied that these books were not by Philolaus himself, and it seems likely that the statement refers to three spurious works assigned to Pythagoras at D.L. VIII 6  (Burkert 1972a, 224 5).