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A SURVEY OF GREEK ART AND ARCHITECTURE

That this large paperback is intended as an undergraduate textbook is made explicit in the front matter, where directions are given to ‘[online] resources created by the author to help you use this book in university courses, whether you’re an instructor or a student’. It comprises fifteen chapters, examining material from the fourth millennium to the first century B.C.E., but the table of contents reveals that the volume is not just the History of Greek Art proposed in the title: readers will also find discussion of architecture in almost every chapter, for example palaces in (2), domestic housing in (5), sanctuary layout and the architectural orders in (7) and Hellenistic cities in (14). The ‘university courses’ the author has in mind are clearly those in Greek art and architecture. The volume appears attractive and helpful. The soft-bound colour pages sit conveniently open without the need for ‘notetaker’s elbow’, while their contents and format are constructed with the student in mind: the front matter includes maps and a timeline; the introduction includes a guide to primary sources; throughout the text, useful terminology is highlighted in colour and glossed in the margin (these terms can be found again in a seven-page glossary in the end matter); each illustration is accompanied by a brief, sensible caption, also indicating whether the subject has been restored or if the image is a detail or reconstruction; each chapter ends with recommended reading, all in English, to assist independent research (although this does come at the expense of a main bibliography); and the book ends with a good (and based on limited testing, accurate) index. The structure of the volume requires the author’s explanation (pp. 15–16). It is, overall, arranged chronologically as follows: (2) ‘The Early and Middle Bronze Ages’; (3) ‘The Late Bronze Age’; (4) ‘The Sub-Mycenaean, Protogeometric and Geometric periods’; (6) ‘The Seventh Century’; (8) ‘The Sixth Century’; (10) ‘The Fifth Century’; (12) ‘The Fourth Century’; (14) ‘The Hellenistic Period’, topped and tailed with an introduction and a short epilogue (predominantly on cultural connections with Persia). These are interspersed with synchronic chapters, considering themes across several periods. The first of these, (5) ‘Contexts I: Civic, Domestic and Funerary’, is a motley collection of short sections which might have sat more comfortably under a title such as ‘Polis and Oikos’. But while the sections of this chapter are individually interesting (‘The City and its Spaces’, THE CLASSICAL REVIEW 220