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Frontmatter; List of Illustrations; 0 Introduction; A year (and more) of collecting, scholarship, and fakes; The long interest in forgery; My own approach to the study of forgery; Definitions of forgery; 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’; 5 Conclusion; Endmatter; Bibliography; Index

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