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ISBN-10 :  0192508454 

ISBN-13 :  9780192508454

Author: Carolyn Higbie 

Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World focuses on the fascination which works of art, texts, and antiquarian objects inspired in Greeks and Romans in antiquity and draws parallels with other cultures and eras to offer contexts for understanding that fascination. Statues, bronze weapons, books, and bones might have been prized for various reasons: because they had religious value, were the work of highly regarded artists and writers, had been possessed by famous mythological figures, or were relics of a long disappeared past. However, attitudes towards these objects also changed over time: sculpture which was originally created for a religious purpose became valuable as art and could be removed from its original setting, while historians discovered value in inscriptions and other texts for supporting historical arguments and literary scholars sought early manuscripts to establish what authors really wrote. As early as the Hellenistic era, some Greeks and Romans began to collect objects and might even display them in palaces, villas, or gardens; as these objects acquired value, a demand was created for more of them, and so copyists and forgers created additional pieces – while copyists imitated existing pieces of art, sometimes adapting to their new settings, forgers created new pieces to complete a collection, fill a gap in historical knowledge, make some money, or to indulge in literary play with knowledgeable readers. The study of forged relics is able to reveal not only what artefacts the Greeks and Romans placed value on, but also what they believed they understood about their past and how they interpreted the evidence for it. Drawing on the latest scholarship on forgery and fakes, as well as a range of examples, this book combines stories about frauds with an analysis of their significance, and illuminates and explores the link between collectors, scholars, and forgers in order to offer us a way to better understand the power that objects held over the ancient Greeks and Romans.

Collectors, scholars, and forgers in the ancient world : object lessons 1st Table of contents:

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
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index Locorum

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