Iteir senior pupils. There are not many editions of the books of fun Cnile for English readers to consult: start with Braund's lP translation. then her Reader, and finally invest in this lectimlha Chombers Oundle School LANCUACE if,EK ETHNIC TERMINOLOGY, by P.M. Fraser lirl Acrdemy/OuP (2009) h/b 424pp f,50.00 (ISBN allTz#an] ! r€r.b*'er declares an interest: he first came to appreciate the b's rernart<able scholarship when he was his pupil for Greek br-v. This is the late F's final work, seen through the press by &ssor Simon Homblower; it should be understood that this 'essay'rfu's *'ord is a supplement to the immensely important ru of Greek Personal Names, of which F. was the founding fiF. admits ttlat 'the topic may not appear likely to be rewarding tsctf his intention was to 'provide a contribution' to the historical lruxting of the term 'ethnic' and of its variations and changes I hd€€d much of this dense and authoritative book is devoted to a dcd strld-v of'ethnics' and 'ktetics' (i.e. possessives): in short, and ls most basic, usages such as A0rlvaioq and ArtLrc6g, the former ry edrnic and the latter ktetic; occasionally the two are used without tbcbn (egin Comedy, or because of metrical requirements). The *'s three parts are first, 'Grammatical and Linguistic Aspects', md}1', 'The Use of the Ethnic', and thirdly, 'Stephanus of zntirmr and Afrer'; there are also four Appendices. The work of the rcgrdpher Stephanus (significant extracts appear here) survives only cpitone, and his own sources, to which this book gives much *ioq are shadowy figures-indeed, perhaps the most important, r. does not appear even inthe Oxford Classical Dictionary. rdividnt sections of the book handle such topics as Ethnics in lic aod Private Use, their appearance as Personal Names, Servile I I'leic Bthnics, Ambiguous and Variable Ethnics, and much i!csThe text is accompanied by numerous, long and dense boteq which should on no account be skated over, since they reb many fascinating sidelights about Greek history, often in a lc dnr is markedly less dry than the main body of the text; here, too, r rcads about scholarly disagreements and controversy, and one ogrises the contributions to the subject made by other scholars, $ll' Louis Robert, August'Meineke, and Wilhelm Dittenberger. Lis is a work of high scholarship, aimed at a specialist audience. e muld hope to frnd it in a university library, where one sees it as E most naturally used as a work ofreference: but for example it Nd also provide a helpful background to a graduate seminar on rt Hisory. hLre*-Londan ARTAND ARCHAEOLOCY X)D & DR.DIK IN ARCHAEOLOGY 2, ed. by Sera Baker et ryect Books (2009) p/b l26pp &20 (ISBN 9781903018682) posgraduate conference papers and three shorter contributions resent different approaches to different aspects ofthe subject over iast span of human history from the Late Neolithic to the 20th n4. The keyrote speaker issues a plea for integration to triumph sr cffipartmentalisation, and this volume lives up to her rallying [This rerie*however, will not deal with such issues as 18th n4'developments in cattle breeding ('The Dun Cow and The rhm Or')but focus on a few aspects of direct concem to sicistsh her kelmte a """"""'ess. Hilary Cool looks at the social milieu of r F€ffig:ea€i-ation revealed tbrough the family cutlery, before irg trt drmfu€ stat the incidence of spoons can tell us about social attitudes in Roman Britain: her sample of native burials may have expressedthek romanilas in other ways but 'using spoons to convey food to the mouth was a change too far'. She also observes a north-south (barley-wheat) divide in diet, but the presence of barley in northem forts might indicate that a divide between native and military communities was not as wide as is sometimes thought. Barley also takes centre stage when Kirsten Bedigan tries to establish lEkeon as a ritual drink. It is attested at Eleusis, probably as a re-enactment of Demeter's drinking (see Hymn to Demeter 270ff.), but other cults offer little evidence apart from some suggestive hints. This volume has much more to offer the archaeologist, especially in the variety ofapproaches to the evidence. It also helps to sfress the importance of the history of food for our understanding of the past. Alan Beale TIIE BERIGLEY PLATO: FROM NEGLECTED RELIC TO ANCIENT TREASURE, by Stephen G. Miller University of California Press (2009) h/b 176pp t34.95 (ISBN 9780520258334) In 1902, seven years before the export ofantiquities from Italy was made illegal, Phoebe Hearst, mother of William Randolph Hearst (the inspiration behind Citizen Kane) and benefactress of the University of California, went on a spending spree 'for the edification ofthe citizens ofnorthern California'. The booty that was acquired included the subject ofthis book, a squared marble section or herm, complete with Greek inscription and topped by a sculptured head, which then suffered decades of neglect: the inscription was held to be a modern fake when it was eventually published in the 60s, by which time the head had become detached and lost (though subsequently reunited with its base). The author proposes a provenance for this Berkeley Plato in a short, easy, and generously illustrated volume. Having established that head and shaft do belong together (on the basis of spectroscopic evidence that they come from the same quarry in Paros) and that the inscription is indeed ancient (from traces of ancient pigment in the lettering), M. suggests that in fact what we have is a Hadrianic Roman copy of the statue of Plato commissioned by Mithddates I of Pontus from the sculptor Silanion, 'the only known portrait of Plato in his own time'. This predates the era when portrayals of philosophers had become standardised as hea"y-browed thinkers. Instead Plato is portrayed as an aristocrat complete with the ribbons that are associated with victory in athletic competitions. M. suggests that the ribbons in this case indicate Plato's status as gymnasiarch of the Academy. It is a porhait of the headmaster set up by grateful students, a fitting present for Plato who, it tums out, was himself attracted to the ribbons motif in his dialogues: Alcibiades in the Symposium, transferring some of his victor's ribbons to Socrates, Socrates at the end of the Republic holding out to aspiring philosophers the prospect of a victory lap in which the winners collect their ribbons. This is definitely worth acquiring for the school library for any age group as a way into Plato for those more interested in art than in argument. Alan Towey Holmewood House School CLASSICAL SCULPTURE AND THE CULTURE OF COLLECTING IN BRITAIN SINCE 1760, by Viccy Coltman oUP (2009) h/b 315pp fso (ISBN 9780199ssr262) The Wounded Amazon (a Roman copy of a 5thC Greek bronze now in New York) fetched a record 28,350 guineas when it was sold in 1930, although in the C18 it was difficult to find a buyer interested in it at all. C. uses the shifting value given to this sculpture to launch her study of'competing intellectual art histories'. This is not a simple narrative of the acquisition of the physical remnants of antiquity, but an investigation into ways meaning and value are determin it is tull scholarly Adolf M style of I his surve not only much els Michelis, Soane's collectior multum,: stuffed fi be seen; i the specti been squr manner' missed th C. exar largely I mechanis penchant perhaps tJ conversi< sleeping acquired, of the ol voyage t( display r chapters. This is butad contribut has been Alan Bet, OCR .A2 D. EIki4 ouP (20 The CDimmediat Architect World; ! Iliad and sheets fo swnmary problem be approi designed Aeneid I, to have a are gener and deq questions questions is raped more dis This is 42 studr confesser appreciat