Apollo, July 1st, 2003
And where are we now ...? New Archaeology, like nouvelle cuisine, is seductive in appearance but nutritionally unsatisfying, and we may do well to be, in the Beazley manner, fastidious in our selection of lost causes, and refuse to be dominated by [it] ... (1) If, to pursue Sir John Boardman's analogy, you generously line a Roman Imperial dining room with sumptuous polychrome decoration; desiccate representations of Polyphemus, the drunken Cyclops, and scatter freely; season with literary references, according to taste; and serve with an accompaniment of other sculptural subjects, what have y...
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