Volume 54, Number 9 · May 31, 2007
We Are All Romans Now
By Garry Wills
Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome
by Carlos A. Picón, Joan R. Mertens, Elizabeth J. Milleker, Christopher S. Lightfoot, and Seán Hemingway, with contributions from Richard De Puma
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 508 pp., $75.00; $40.00 (paper)
One might think, from frequent news reports, that the Metropolitan Museum would be running low on artifacts to fill its redesigned galleries of ancient art. It has agreed to return twenty-one objects to Italy, including the famous Euphronios krater and sixteen pieces of valuable silver. (Half of the silver objects will remain on long-term loan to the Met.) It had already sold an ancient coin collection to pay for the Euphronios vase, 'the million-dollar pot.' More than two hundred gold, silver, and bronze artifacts from the sixth century BCE—the famous 'Lydian Hoard'—were returned to Turkey in 1993.[1]
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