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Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome

Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:John North Hopkins (Editor), Scott McGill (Editor)Publish date:2023-10-27Pages:464
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192869586ISBN-10:192869582UPC:9780192869586Book Category:Art, Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Ancient and Classical, AncientBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:9.29 x 6.44 x 1.18 inchesWeight:2.0613Product ID:SCCSC370N2
What do forgeries do? Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome explores that question with a focus on forgery in ancient Rome and of ancient Rome. Its chapters reach from antiquity to the twentieth century and cover literature and art, the two areas that predominate in forgery studies, as well as the forgery of physical books, coins, and religious relics. The book examines the cultural, historical, and rhetorical functions of forgery that extend beyond the desire to deceive and profit. It analyses forgery in connection with related phenomena like pseudepigraphy, fakes, and copies; and it investigates the aesthetic and historical value that forgeries possess when scholarship takes seriously their form, content, and varied uses within and across cultures. Of particular interest is the way that forgeries embody a desire for the ancient and for the recovery of the fragmentary past of ancient Rome.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192869586ISBN-10:192869582UPC:9780192869586Book Category:Art, Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Ancient and Classical, AncientBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:9.29 x 6.44 x 1.18 inchesWeight:2.0613Product ID:SCCSC370N2
John North Hopkins, Associate Professor of the Art and Archaeology of Ancient Mediterranean peoples, New York University, Scott McGill, Deedee McMurty Professor in the Humanities, Rice University

John Hopkins is Associate Professor of the art and archaeology of ancient Mediterranean peoples at New York University. He is author of The Genesis of Roman Architecture and Unbinding Rome: Art and Craft in a Fluid Landscape, 700-200 BCE (2016). He is co-editor with Sarah Kielt Costello and Paul R. Davis of Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art (2020).

Scott McGill is Deedee McMurty Professor in the Humanities at Rice University. He is the author of four books, including most recently Virgil: Aeneid 11. A Commentary (2020), and the co-editor of three volumes. His translation, with Susannah Wright, of Virgil's Aeneid is forthcoming with Norton Press.
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John North Hopkins (Editor), Scott McGill (Editor)

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