Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Forgery Beyond Deceit

Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome

Av John North Hopkins, Scott McGill

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2023-07-27
Mått: 160 x 243 x 30 mm
Vikt: 840 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 462
Förlag: OUP OXFORD
ISBN: 9780192869586

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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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Across this collection there are many points of connection, nuanced arguments, and fascinating details. Desire appears in almost every chapter, as generative, intensifying, or destructive. And while the Epilogue reiterates many of the themes discussed here, Collins draws an especially salient point from the contributions: forgery is in so many of these chapters linked to vitality. "Ancient Rome, real and forged, is very much alive". Like the forgeries which it explores, this volume demonstrates that the field of forgery studies is thriving.

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