{"product_id":"forgery-beyond-deceit-fabrication-value-and-the-desire-for-ancient-rome-9780192869586","title":"Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome","description":"What do forgeries do? \u003cem\u003eForgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome\u003c\/em\u003e explores that question with a focus on forgery \u003cem\u003ein\u003c\/em\u003e ancient Rome and \u003cem\u003eof\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn North Hopkins, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of the Art and Archaeology of Ancient Mediterranean peoples, New York University\u003c\/em\u003e, Scott McGill, \u003cem\u003eDeedee McMurty Professor in the Humanities, Rice University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Hopkins\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of the art and archaeology of ancient Mediterranean peoples at New York University. He is author of \u003cem\u003eThe Genesis of Roman Architecture and Unbinding Rome: Art and Craft in a Fluid Landscape, 700-200 BCE\u003c\/em\u003e (2016). He is co-editor with Sarah Kielt Costello and Paul R. Davis of \u003cem\u003eObject Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art\u003c\/em\u003e (2020). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScott McGill\u003c\/strong\u003e is Deedee McMurty Professor in the Humanities at Rice University. He is the author of four books, including most recently \u003cem\u003eVirgil: Aeneid 11. A Commentary\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), and the co-editor of three volumes. His translation, with Susannah Wright, of Virgil's \u003cem\u003eAeneid\u003c\/em\u003e is forthcoming with Norton Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50867301351698,"sku":"9780192869586","price":141.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3fa372f9-fa7b-4f2c-b645-b1e8edfaea8f.jpg?v=1737696796","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/forgery-beyond-deceit-fabrication-value-and-the-desire-for-ancient-rome-9780192869586","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}