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This volume focuses on how ancient Greek and Roman fascination with works of art, texts, and antiquarian objects gave rise to the production of copies and forgeries. Drawing on a range of examples and up-to-date scholarship on forgery it offers insight into what the ancients found valuable and how they understood their past and the evidence for it.
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This volume focuses on how ancient Greek and Roman fascination with works of art, texts, and antiquarian objects gave rise to the production of copies and forgeries. Drawing on a range of examples and up-to-date scholarship on forgery it offers insight into what the ancients found valuable and how they understood their past and the evidence for it.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 304
- Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2017
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 499g
- ISBN-13: 9780198759300
- ISBN-10: 0198759304
- Artikelnr.: 47869279
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 304
- Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2017
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 499g
- ISBN-13: 9780198759300
- ISBN-10: 0198759304
- Artikelnr.: 47869279
Carolyn Higbie is Park Professor of Classics at the University at Buffalo, where she has taught since 1999. She has previously held teaching positions at Harvard University and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale as well as being named a Fellow of the Humanities Institute of the University at Buffalo in 2011-12 and Fellow at the National Center for the Humanities in 2003-04. Her previous publications include The Lindian Chronicle and the Greek Recreation of their Past (OUP, 2003), Heroes' Names, Homeric Identities (Garland, 1995), and Measure and Music: Enjambement and Sentence Structure in the Iliad (OUP, 1990).
Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
0: Introduction
A year (and more) of collecting, scholarship, and fakes
The long interest in forgery
My own approach to the study of forgery
Definitions of forgery
1: Collectors, Collecting, and Collections
An introduction to ancient collecting and collections
Foreign collectors: Croesus
Foreign collectors: Xerxes
Greek collectors: oracles, writing, and forgery
Aristotle
Alexander the Great
Collectors in the Hellenistic era
Roman collectors
Collecting, scholarship, and forgery
2: Visual Forgeries
Introduction
Signatures
Connoisseurship
Famous names and the artwork of the past
Roman collectors: originals and copies
The developmental view of art
Forgery and forgeries
3: Textual Forgeries
The relics of poets
Autograph manuscripts
Education, literary play, analysis, and forgery
The effects of disseminating texts
Forgery, authentication, and erudition
Documentary forgeries
The documents associated with Alexander the Great
The Lindian Chronicle and sources
Documents, handwriting, and forgeries in legal matters of Athens and Rome
Counterfeit coins
Conclusion
4: The Forgery of the Past
Tharsagoras, Timachidas, and the Lindian Chronicle
Mucianus
Pliny the Elder
Phlegon of Tralles
Pausanias
Antiquarians and Homer
The Trojan War in the Lindian Chronicle
Mycenae
Tombs
Forging the past
Playing with Homer: Dictys
Playing with Homer: Philostratus, 'On Heroes'
5: Conclusion
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
0: Introduction
A year (and more) of collecting, scholarship, and fakes
The long interest in forgery
My own approach to the study of forgery
Definitions of forgery
1: Collectors, Collecting, and Collections
An introduction to ancient collecting and collections
Foreign collectors: Croesus
Foreign collectors: Xerxes
Greek collectors: oracles, writing, and forgery
Aristotle
Alexander the Great
Collectors in the Hellenistic era
Roman collectors
Collecting, scholarship, and forgery
2: Visual Forgeries
Introduction
Signatures
Connoisseurship
Famous names and the artwork of the past
Roman collectors: originals and copies
The developmental view of art
Forgery and forgeries
3: Textual Forgeries
The relics of poets
Autograph manuscripts
Education, literary play, analysis, and forgery
The effects of disseminating texts
Forgery, authentication, and erudition
Documentary forgeries
The documents associated with Alexander the Great
The Lindian Chronicle and sources
Documents, handwriting, and forgeries in legal matters of Athens and Rome
Counterfeit coins
Conclusion
4: The Forgery of the Past
Tharsagoras, Timachidas, and the Lindian Chronicle
Mucianus
Pliny the Elder
Phlegon of Tralles
Pausanias
Antiquarians and Homer
The Trojan War in the Lindian Chronicle
Mycenae
Tombs
Forging the past
Playing with Homer: Dictys
Playing with Homer: Philostratus, 'On Heroes'
5: Conclusion
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index
Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
0: Introduction
A year (and more) of collecting, scholarship, and fakes
The long interest in forgery
My own approach to the study of forgery
Definitions of forgery
1: Collectors, Collecting, and Collections
An introduction to ancient collecting and collections
Foreign collectors: Croesus
Foreign collectors: Xerxes
Greek collectors: oracles, writing, and forgery
Aristotle
Alexander the Great
Collectors in the Hellenistic era
Roman collectors
Collecting, scholarship, and forgery
2: Visual Forgeries
Introduction
Signatures
Connoisseurship
Famous names and the artwork of the past
Roman collectors: originals and copies
The developmental view of art
Forgery and forgeries
3: Textual Forgeries
The relics of poets
Autograph manuscripts
Education, literary play, analysis, and forgery
The effects of disseminating texts
Forgery, authentication, and erudition
Documentary forgeries
The documents associated with Alexander the Great
The Lindian Chronicle and sources
Documents, handwriting, and forgeries in legal matters of Athens and Rome
Counterfeit coins
Conclusion
4: The Forgery of the Past
Tharsagoras, Timachidas, and the Lindian Chronicle
Mucianus
Pliny the Elder
Phlegon of Tralles
Pausanias
Antiquarians and Homer
The Trojan War in the Lindian Chronicle
Mycenae
Tombs
Forging the past
Playing with Homer: Dictys
Playing with Homer: Philostratus, 'On Heroes'
5: Conclusion
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
0: Introduction
A year (and more) of collecting, scholarship, and fakes
The long interest in forgery
My own approach to the study of forgery
Definitions of forgery
1: Collectors, Collecting, and Collections
An introduction to ancient collecting and collections
Foreign collectors: Croesus
Foreign collectors: Xerxes
Greek collectors: oracles, writing, and forgery
Aristotle
Alexander the Great
Collectors in the Hellenistic era
Roman collectors
Collecting, scholarship, and forgery
2: Visual Forgeries
Introduction
Signatures
Connoisseurship
Famous names and the artwork of the past
Roman collectors: originals and copies
The developmental view of art
Forgery and forgeries
3: Textual Forgeries
The relics of poets
Autograph manuscripts
Education, literary play, analysis, and forgery
The effects of disseminating texts
Forgery, authentication, and erudition
Documentary forgeries
The documents associated with Alexander the Great
The Lindian Chronicle and sources
Documents, handwriting, and forgeries in legal matters of Athens and Rome
Counterfeit coins
Conclusion
4: The Forgery of the Past
Tharsagoras, Timachidas, and the Lindian Chronicle
Mucianus
Pliny the Elder
Phlegon of Tralles
Pausanias
Antiquarians and Homer
The Trojan War in the Lindian Chronicle
Mycenae
Tombs
Forging the past
Playing with Homer: Dictys
Playing with Homer: Philostratus, 'On Heroes'
5: Conclusion
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index