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'The first four chapters of this excellent scholarly study focus primarily on Greek portrait images, their origins, meaning, and various contexts from the Archaic to the late classical periods (sixth-fourth centuries BCE). The last chapter deals with the Hellenistic period down to the Roman conquest of Greece, a time when new portraits of contemporary Greeks were set up in various locations, and a number of old Greek sculptural images were removed to Italy by the Romans, or were reused in Greece by local authorities to represent Roman personages (especially prominent military men and statesmen) by providing them with new identifying inscriptions on their bases. Throughout the book Keesling makes excellent use of ancient primary sources, including dedicatory inscriptions and their significance for understanding the social, political, and religious contexts in which these images were set up. Two appendixes list, and provide pertinent information about, known portrait statues set up (c. 600-300 BCE) at the religious sanctuaries of Olympia and Delphi.' Choice

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Catherine M. Keesling is Associate Professor of Classics at Georgetown University. She is the author of The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis (Cambridge, 2003), as well as journal articles and book chapters on Greek sculpture of the Archaic and Classical periods and its reception, Greek epigraphy and commemorative monuments.

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