Higbie, Carolyn
Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World : Object Lessons Carolyn Higbie - UK Oxford University Press 2017 - 276 Pages 22x14 cm HB
Include Index and Bibliography
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
9780198759300
Forgery of antiquities
Rome (Empire)
Greece
938
Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World : Object Lessons Carolyn Higbie - UK Oxford University Press 2017 - 276 Pages 22x14 cm HB
Include Index and Bibliography
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
9780198759300
Forgery of antiquities
Rome (Empire)
Greece
938