Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome

by Hopkins

What do forgeries do? Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192869582
• ISBN13: 9780192869586
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"