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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Introduction -- Prologue: Ideas of Forgery -- Some definitions -- Some contradictions -- Belief, authenticatory devices, and the erudition effect -- Meeting expectations and salting the mines -- Ambition -- The period eye and the smoking gun -- Some early forgeries -- Accidental forgery -- Beneficial forgery? -- The value of authenticity -- Superior fakes -- Rehabilitated forgeries |
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Conclusions -- 1. 'Corinthian Bronzes': Miniature Masterpieces-Flagrant Forgeries -- A prefatory note on forgery -- Introduction: An hypothesis -- The art market of the Late Republic and its 'categories of collectible' -- Archaeological evidence for 'Corinthian bronzes' -- On the authenticity of antique 'Corinthian bronzes' -- 'Corinthia' as exceptionally high-quality votives of the Roman period -- Conclusion: What were Corinthian bronzes? -- 2. Reading Against the Grain: Book Forgery and Book Labor at Rome -- Situating book forgery at Rome -- Rare books at Rome and the value of oldness |
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Book forgery and the book trade -- Authenticity and authentication: skepticism of potential forgeries -- Conclusion -- 3. Imperial Greek Atticism: A Culture of Forgery? Phrynichus and the Terminology of 'Authenticity' -- Introduction -- Atticism and Atticist lexicography in the Imperial era -- Phrynichus, Atticism and Echtheitskritik -- Phrynichus, Atticism and a culture of forgery? -- Conclusion: Authenticity and Atticism -- 4. Forgery, Pseudepigrapha, and Other Typologies of Continuation in Latin Literature -- Forgery, appendix, and pseudepigraphon: Toward a disambiguation of terms and contexts |
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An alternative grammar of continuation: "Intervention," "play," and "response" -- Conclusion -- 5. The Fluidity of False Coins -- Introduction -- Sulla and the lex Cornelia -- Counterfeiting -- Endemic counterfeiting and unofficial coins? -- Conclusions -- 6. Ancient Texts and Sibylline Truths: A Reflection on Forged Documentary Evidence and its Value in the Historia Augusta -- The linen books and the Life of Aurelian -- The linen books and the Sibylline oracles -- The linen books and their value -- The linen books and Sibylline truths -- Conclusion |
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7. Thinking with Antiquity's Ancient Beginnings: The "First Pagan Historian" from Isidore of Seville to Thomas Jefferson -- Dares Phrygius, "first pagan historian" -- The critics -- The defenders -- Resolution? Antiquities without histories -- 8. Forgery and the Desire for the Classical Author in the Pseudo-Ovidian De vetula -- Why forgery? -- The mischief-maker's destructive touch -- The forgery -- The allegory -- The eunuch -- The value of forgery -- 9. Archaeology and the Invention of Holy Bodies in Post-Tridentine Rome -- The early authentication of relics |
| Summary |
What do forgeries do? This book explores that question with a focus on forgery in ancient Rome and of ancient Roman artifacts. 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 analyzes 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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Forgery -- History
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Forgery -- Rome
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Art, Roman -- Forgeries
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Literary forgeries and mystifications.
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Forgery -- Social aspects
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Forgery of antiquities.
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Forgery.
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Social services & welfare, criminology.
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True Crime.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hopkins, John North, editor
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McGill, Scott, 1968- editor.
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| ISBN |
0191965669 |
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9780191965661 |
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9780192696595 |
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0192696599 |
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