TY - BOOK ID - 126343847 TI - Forgery beyond deceit : fabrication, value, and the desire for ancient Rome AU - McGill, Scott AU - Hopkins, John North PY - 2023 SN - 9780192869586 0192869582 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Classical antiquities KW - Forgery KW - Art, Roman KW - Literary forgeries and mystifications. KW - Forgery of antiquities. KW - Faux KW - Antiquités KW - Antiquités gréco-romaines KW - Art romain KW - Faux et supercheries littéraires. KW - Forgery. KW - Forgeries. KW - History KW - History. KW - Social aspects. KW - Histoire. KW - Aspect social. KW - Faux. KW - Histoire KW - Rome (Empire). UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:126343847 AB - What do forgeries do? This book 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. ER -