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THE IMPACT OF ALEXANDER

article in the collection by nearly 30 years, and the sculptural programme of the parapet frieze of the temple to Athena Nike (Chapter 7). This sculpture, he convincingly argues, depicts Nike herself performing the pre-battle sacrifice on behalf of the Athenians under the gaze of Athena and, by telescoping preceding ritual and the subsequent outcome, acts as an assertion of the certainty of Athenian victory. A particular highlight is Chapter 2, J.’s reconstruction of the history of an ephebic institution at Mycenae, beginning from a very brief archaic inscription and tracing its probable history and connections with the hero Perseus through literary and epigraphic sources as well as iconographic comparanda all the way down to its apparent revival under Argive dominance during the Hellenistic period. The articles have been freshly typeset for this volume, with the omission of the original page numbers. This decision is understandable, though it does make the volume somewhat less easy to use as a work of reference. However, given this omission, the fact that the section introductions use the old pagination for quotations and do not make cross references within the book is irritating to say the least. In the process of typesetting at least one error of substance has crept in: the caption for figure 2.6 (IG V.1.257 – a remarkable isopsephic verse inscription from Laconia, in which the letters in each line add up to 2,730), wrongly attributes this text to the fourth century B.C. rather than the second century A.D. The reproduction of the numerous figures is superb. The index is serviceable and the volume is preceded by an introduction by P. Cartledge which does a good job of placing J.’s work on Greek religion within the context of his wider interests in epigraphy, economic history, slavery and archaeological field survey (of which J. was a crucial pioneer).