Animo Decipiendi?: Rethinking fakes and authorship in Classical, Late Antique, & Early Christian Works

by Antonio Guzmán (Editor), Javier Martínez (Editor)

Many new and fruitful avenues of investigation open up when scholars consider forgery as a creative act rather than a crime. We invited authors to contribute work without imposing any restrictions beyond a willingness to consider new approaches to the subject of ancient fakes, forgeries and questions of authenticity. The result is this volume, in which our aim is to display some of the many possibilities available to scholarship. Following Splendide Mendax, this is the latest installment of an ongoing inquiry, conducted by scholars in numerous countries, into how the ancient world-its literature and culture, its history and art-appears when viewed through the lens of fakes and forgeries, sincerities and authenticities, genuine signatures and pseudepigrapha.

335 pages, Hardcover

Published February 22, 2019

Reviews

[Stephen Sorensen · Rating 5 out of 5]

The contents of this book are academic and not written for a lay audience. Overall a great collection of chapters that fit well with the title.