Volume 5, Number 11 · January 6, 1966
The Art of the Greeks
By Ernst Gombrich
Greek Temples, Theatres, and Shrines
by Helmut Berve, by Gottfried Gruben, photographs by Max Hirmer
Abrams, 462, 212 illustrations, 36 color plates pp., $30.00
Greek Sculpture
by R. Lullies, photographs by Max Hirmer
Abrams, 398, 323 illustrations, 11 color plates pp., $17.50
Ancient Greek Sculpture of South Italy and Sicily
by Ernest Langlotz, photographs by Max Hirmer
Abrams, 276, 226 illustrations, 22 color plates pp., $25.00
A History of 1000 Years of Greek Vase Painting
by Paolo Enrico Arias, translated by B. Shefton, photographs by Max Hirmer
Abrams, 434, 335 illustrations, 54 color plates pp., $30.00
Crete and Mycenae
by Spyridon Marinatos, photographs by Max Hirmer
Abrams, 432, 421 illustrations, 52 color plates pp., $25.00
The Portraits of the Greeks
by G.M.A. Richter
Phaidon (distributed by the New York Graphic Society), 3 volumes, 336, 2,100 illustrations pp., $75.00
The Techniques of Painted Attic Pottery
by Joseph Veach Noble
Watson-Guptill, 234, 260 illustrations pp., $17.50
There is a famous story in Plutarch's Life of Aristides, telling how this virtuous Athenian was asked by an illiterate voter to scratch the name of Aristides on a potsherd because he wanted him banished. 'But what harm has he done you?' asked the statesman. 'None,' said the man, 'but I am tired of hearing him everywhere called the Just.' Needless to say, Aristides complied and went into exile.
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