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.
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.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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