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308 BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS Page 102: Bowl Type 2 with arrow shaped protuberances. Can these be derived from the Central Italic tradition of linguette on olle and ollette found in votive deposits all around the Tiber area from the ninth century onwards? Many of the examples have 4,5, or 6 little arrow shaped projections below the rim (a good discussion and bibliography for the type is found in P. Mingazzini, "II santuario della Dea Marica alle foci del Garigliano," MAAL 37 [1938] 865ff.). Page 130: Leach's comment on the southward movement of stamnoid ollas from Veii to Lazio and Campania is provocative in light of the appearance of the shape with "Italic geometric" decoration in contexts of the second quarter of the sixth century at Oppido Lucano and Padula. Page 141: A comparison between the "abundance and variety of Greek pottery found in the cemeteries of the earliest Greek settlement at Pithekoussai and the earliest Greek colony at Cumae" with that "of the material from the native and contemporary Italic settlements at Capua and Pontecagnano" is not valid, since the cemetery finds of one culture and the settlement finds of another are not comparable. The difference between "native" and "Italic" is unclear. In summation, the distribution and chronology of subgeometric pottery are extremely important to understanding of early contact and trade between Southern Etruria and the rest of Italy and Sicily. Leach's knowledge of the subject and analysis of the different types of evidence is impressive, but inefficient organization diminishes the significance of the study. A more concise and less disjunctive presentation would have been achieved if the catalogue and typology chapters had been combined. One hopes that in the future Leach will organize her material primarily as a unified argument, rather than as a catalogue of forms and decoration. UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HELENA M. FRACCHIA PAUL ZANKER. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, trans. A. SHAPIRO. Jerome Lectures, 16th series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988. pp. vii + 385, figs. 260. US$32.50. ISBN 0-472-10101-3. Augustus has come into fashion in recent years. Numerous colloquia and exhibitions have been organized around the princeps and his age, culminating in the 1988 Berlin Exhibition, Kaiser Augustus und die verlorene Republik, with its more than 6OO-pagecatalogue. In addition to individual monographs and the publication of colloquia, there have been more general syntheses: D. Kienast's Augustus: Prinzeps und Monar ch (Darmstadt: 1982); the three volume Saeculum Augustum in the Wege der Forschung series (ed. G. Binder, Darmstadt 1987-8: BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 309 Vol. III, Kunst und Bildersprache is not yet available); and Erika Simon's splendidly illustrated Augustus: Kunst und Leben in Rom um die Zeitenwende (Munich: Hirmer 1986). This growth in interest has been fuelled by major new archaeological discoveries such as the Horologium, the House of Augustus on the Palatine, the pedimental sculpture of the Temple of Apollo Sosianus, and the bronze equestrian statue of Augustus found in the northern Aegean. Along with these has gone careful re-examination of well known monuments, from the Ara Pacis and the Forum of Augustus to the numerous portraits of Augustus himself and of members of his family. The result of all this activity has been to ensure that any serious study of Augustus in the future will have to take the art and architecture of the age fully into consideration as a primary source for the understanding of his achievements and his reign. This has not always been the case in the past, especially in the English-speaking world, where art and architecture (and perhaps culture in general), have tended to be treated as a minor, and slightly frivolous appendage: thus A.H.M. Jones' Augustus (London 1970) devoted 6 pages out of 174 to the arts, with no attempt to integrate them into any discussion of Augustus' overall policies. Paul Zanker has already contributed extensively to this revival of Augustusstudies , with publications on (inter alia) the Forum Augustum (1968), Augustan work in the Forum Romanum (1972), the portraits of Augustus (1978 and, with K. Vierneisel, 1979), the Temple of Apollo on the Palatine (1983); that he...

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