The author of the anonymous notes seemed to be all-knowing.

This is the position set out by the anti-democratic pamphlet known whose anonymous author is often called the Old Oligarch.

The visions in the latter half of Daniel are theorized to be written by an anonymous author in the Maccabean era, who assembled the legends with the visions as one book, in the 2nd century BCE.

According to this theory, the anonymous author attributed these events to Daniel, as prophecies that were witnessed by this writer in the 2nd century BCE.

* Chapters 40 to 55 ( Second Isaiah or Deutero-Isaiah ): by an anonymous author who lived in Babylon near the end of the Babylonian captivity.

After its first release, this book sold far better than any of Butler's other works — perhaps because the British public assumed that the anonymous author was some better-known figure ( the favorite being Lord Lytton, who had published The Coming Race two years previously ).

In the 6th century, Simplicius wrote a commentary upon it, and two Christian writers, Nilus and an anonymous author wrote paraphrases of it, adapted for Christians, in the first half of the 5th century.

The anonymous author drew three main sources, including the Gospel of Mark, the sayings collection known as the Q source, and material unique to his own community.

" Another July 1816 anonymous review, in the Augustan Review, claimed that the poem's descriptions " have much of the Oriental richness and harmony " but also said, in response to the preface, " There seems to be no great harm in dreaming while one sleeps ; but an author really should not thus dream while he is awake, and writing too.

The only other major contemporary source is the Liber Historiae Francorum, an anonymous adaptation of Gregory's work apparently ignorant of Fredegar's chronicle: its author ( s ) ends with a reference to Theuderic IV's sixth year, which would be 727.

The Motul Dictionary, compiled in the 16th century by an anonymous author ( although attributed to Fray Antonio de Ciudad Real ), contains a list of stars originally observed by the ancient Mayas.

This theory is confirmed in the text itself when the author seems to contrast himself with Solomon " Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon ... My vinyard, my very own, is for myself " ( 8. 11-12 ) It was common practice in ancient times for an anonymous writer seeking recognition for his work to write eponymously in the name of someone more famous.

In the science fiction anthology Far Boundaries ( 1951 ), the editor August Derleth identifies the short story " Missing One's Coach: An Anachronism ", written for the Dublin Literary Magazine by an anonymous author in 1838, as a very early time travel story.

The composition is by an anonymous author from the 10th century and is referred to as Eiríksmál, and describes Eric Bloodaxe and five other kings arriving in Valhalla after their death.

It was once thought that this anonymous author wrote a series of 32 plays ( each averaging about 384 lines ) called the Towneley Cycle.

The anonymous author of Praedestinatus records that a preacher came to Rome in 388 where he made many converts and obtained the use of a church for his congregation on the grounds that the martyrs to whom it was dedicated had been Montanists.

Its anonymous author calls himself Bion's heir and an " Ausonian " (= Italian ), which may mean that Bion traveled to Italy at some point, perhaps for patronage in Rome ( as Greek poets were beginning to do in his lifetime ).

The oldest known depiction of a parachute, by an anonymous author ( Italy, 1470s )

Doe subpoenas are often served on online service providers and ISPs to obtain the identity of the author of an anonymous post.

Even his name is uncertain, but it was probably Marcus Manilius ; in the earlier books the author is anonymous, the later give Manilius, Manlius, Mallius.

It is logical to infer that Shakespeare had special intentions with Cordelia ’ s death, as he was the only writer to have Cordelia killed ( in the version by the anonymous author, she continues to live happily, and in Holinshed ’ s, she restores her father and succeeds him ).

The title is a reference to Flow My Tears, an ayre by the 16th century composer John Dowland, setting to music a poem by an anonymous author ( possibly Dowland himself ).

The composition is by an anonymous author from the 10th century and is referred to as Eiríksmál.

If the natural author or authors are not identified, nor become known subsequently, then the copyright term is the same as that for an anonymous or pseudonymous work, i. e. 70 years from publication for a literary or artistic work ; or, if the work has not been published in that time, 70 years from creation.

According to an anonymous biographer of Aeschylus, the Athenians chose Simonides ahead of Aeschylus to be the author of an epigram honouring their war-dead at Marathon, which led the tragedian ( who had fought at the battle and whose brother had died there ) to withdraw sulking to the court of Hieron of Syracuse — the story is probably based on the inventions of comic dramatists but it is likely that Simonides did in fact write some kind of commemorative verses for the Athenian victory at Marathon.

It was visited in 333 by the anonymous " Pilgrim of Bordeaux ", whose Itinerarium Burdigalense is the earliest description left by a Christian traveler in the Holy Land.

* The Baron d ' Holbach's ( anonymous ) materialist work Le Système de la Nature ou Des Loix du Monde Physique et du Monde Moral is produced in Neuchâtel.

The anonymous Mundus alter et idem is a satirical utopian fantasy, not denied by him in strong terms at any point.

Pantagruel was a sequel to an anonymous book entitled The Great Chronicles of the Great and Enormous Giant Gargantua ( in French, Les Grandes Chroniques du Grand et Enorme Géant Gargantua ).

And as " anonymous " wrote Masochists in America ( Le Masochisme en Amérique: Recueil des récits et impressions personnelles d ' une victime du féminisme ) ( 1905 ).

The Bavarian Geographer () is a conventional name given by Jan Potocki in 1796 to the author of an anonymous medieval document Descriptio civitatum et regionum ad septentrionalem plagam Danubii (" Description of Cities and Lands North of the Danube ").

The Mirabilis liber ( Mirabilis liber qui prophetias revelationesque, necnon res mirandas, preteritas, presentes et futuras, aperte demonstrat ...) is an anonymous and formerly very popular compilation of predictions by various Christian saints and divines that was published in France in 1522 ( though purportedly published in Rome in 1524, probably because it was the date of an important and long-anticipated planetary alignment ) and reprinted several times thereafter.

In 1652, John Phillips published a Latin reply to the anonymous attack on Milton entitled Pro Rege et populo anglicano.

* Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum ( anonymous )

To him has sometimes been ascribed the anonymous treatise, Arnobii catholici et Serapionis conflictus de Deo trino et uno ... de gratiae liberi arbitrii concordia, which was probably written by a follower of Augustine.

The so-called Gesta Francorum (" The Deeds of the Franks ") or in full Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum (" The deeds of the Franks and the other pilgrims to Jerusalem ") is a Latin chronicle of the First Crusade written in circa 1100-1101 by an anonymous author connected with Bohemond I of Antioch.

Although he never held any important political office, he must have been in the confidence of the court when, in 1300, he wrote his anonymous Summaria, brevis et compendiosa doctrina felicis expeditionis et abbreviationis guerrarum et litium regni Francorum, which is extant in a unique manuscript, and is analysed by Natalis de Wailly in the Bibliothèque de l ' École des Chartes ( 2nd series, vol.

( On page 4 of his work ' Les Reves et les Moyens de Les Diriger ' the anonymous author stated that he was in his fourteenth year when he started his dreamwork ).

Le Garçon et l ' aveugle ( The Boy and the Blind Man ) is the name of a 13th century French play ; considered the oldest surviving French literature farce, it is by an anonymous author.

** 13 chansons ( 3 anonymous ) in " Tiers livre contenant XXXI chansons musicales ... composeez par Jennequin et Passereau ".

* Book on Augmentation and Diminution ( Kitāb al-jamʿ wa al-tafrīq ), which gained more attention after historian Franz Woepcke linked it with an anonymous Latin work, Liber augmenti et diminutionis.

A long anonymous reply, Pro Rege et Populo Anglicano, appeared later, in 1651 at Antwerp ; this was authored by a royalist clergyman, John Rowland.