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## BOOK REVIEWS 151 collecting the illustrations and laying out the plates must have involved considerable difficulty! Editing of the volume was completed in 1982, so that publications appearing around that time or later could not be included. Most entries, if not all, are, however, remarkably up-to-date. They vary also in the degree by which they acknowledge divergent opinions. Some are briefer in their review of the scholarship and decisive in their pronouncements; others scrupulously list all proposed dates and interpretations, leaving the issue open. A thorough reading may produce bewilderment and almost panic, as one realizes how much disagreement exists and how little is firmly known. Yet it is encouraging to see that a true effort is being made in almost all cases to distinguish between Roman copies and Roman creations after specific Greek styles; and Roman sculpture is represented by a substantial number of works in the round. Wall paintings, gems, coins, and other forms of art are also substantially considered, and even unpublished items, like the seal impressions from Delos and Paphos, are at least cited if not illustrated (s.v. Athena, pp. 1039-40).

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Author

Larissa Bonfante; David Ridgway

Published

1987

Language

IT

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)