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A unique, fully illustrated, and fascinating study of all the known carved reliefs decorating official inscriptions in classical and Hellenistic Athens. The author's new and illuminating work on the iconography of these reliefs shows how the gods, heroes, and other personifications were not simply decorative, but integral to the overall political message.

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This most complete and rigorous treatment of the subject, equipped with excellent photographs, is especially welcome...an outstanding work of scholarship, very handsomely produced, which everyone interested in Greek sculpture and Athenian history and culture will want to own. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review * The necessity of placing these reliefs fully within their historical, political, and artistic context is rightly emphasized by Lawton, and she carries out this promise in an exemplary manner throughout ... This is a very thorough and approachable study, and will surely remain the standard work on the subject for a long time to come. * K. W. Arafat, The Classical Review *

<br> Lawton's long familiarity with the stones and her command of the seondary literature are evident throughout the volume's introduction, three substantial chapters, and the detailed texts and bibliographies of 187 catalogue entries. This book's great strength, however, lies not only in completeness (Lawton includes 11 reliefs omitted from M. Meyer's Die griechischen Urkundenrliefs, AM-BH 13, Berlin, 1989), but also in its precision, clarity, balance, and scope. Lawton has served this material well. Archaeologists, art historians, epigraphers, historians, and historians of religion will all profit from her book. She is now working on Attic votive reliefs. We should look forward to her results --American Journal of Archaeology<br>. ..an outstanding work of scholarship, very handsomely produced, which everyone interested in Greek sculpture and Athenian history and culture will want to own. --Bryn Mawr Classical Review<br>

Lawton's long familiarity with the stones and her command of the seondary literature are evident throughout the volume's introduction, three substantial chapters, and the detailed texts and bibliographies of 187 catalogue entries. This book's great strength, however, lies not only in completeness (Lawton includes 11 reliefs omitted from M. Meyer's Die griechischen Urkundenrliefs, AM-BH 13, Berlin, 1989), but also in its precision, clarity, balance, and scope. Lawton has served this material well. Archaeologists, art historians, epigraphers, historians, and historians of religion will all profit from her book. She is now working on Attic votive reliefs. We should look forward to her results --American Journal of Archaeology<br> .,. an outstanding work of scholarship, very handsomely produced, which everyone interested in Greek sculpture and Athenian history and culture will want to own. --Bryn Mawr Classical Review<br>

`The necessity of placing these reliefs fully within their historical, political, and artistic context is rightly emphasized by Lawton, and she carries out this promise in an exemplary manner throughout ... This is a very thorough and approachable study, and will surely remain the standard work on the subject for a long time to come.' K. W. Arafat, The Classical Review `This most complete and rigorous treatment of the subject, equipped with excellent photographs, is especially welcome...an outstanding work of scholarship, very handsomely produced, which everyone interested in Greek sculpture and Athenian history and culture will want to own.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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