Art and Archaeology

• Published in: Greece and Rome Vol. 59; no. 2; pp. 275 - 278
• Main Author: SPIVEY, NIGEL
• Format: Book Review Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.10.2012
• Subjects: Subject Reviews
• ISSN: 0017-3835; 1477-4550
• DOI: 10.1017/S0017383512000150

[...]the author is professor in a department of political science, and it is a merit of this book to bring tools of that trade, if not such words as redescription, to bear. Complementing the better-known Silk Route, the Maritime Spice Route is revealed by these excavations at Berenike as an important nexus of the global economy in classical antiquity. [...]as Junker takes his readers through a series of careful case studies, the boundaries of myth and reality also tend to dissolve. [...]even at the introductory level, it now seems obligatory to be initiated in such theoretical issues to judge from Mark Stansbury-ODonnells Looking at Greek Art.80 Billed as a practical guide to the methods for approaching, analysing, and contextualizing an unfamiliar piece of Greek art (blurb), it assumes readers will experience monuments and artefacts in various media at rst-hand the rst chapter is devoted to thoughts about modern display and presentation and then adjourn to academia for seminars, not so much about the objects per se but rather about how we can begin to understand them.