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The Birth of Western Civilization: Greece and Rome edited by Michael Grant. London: Thames & Hudson, 1964. 356 pp., including 665 illustrations (225 in colour). £8 8s.*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1965

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* Advertisements of this book say that it contains ‘360 pages, 224 full-colour plates, over 700 illustrations’. By ‘plates’ are meant illustrations, which run up to nine to a page; these ‘plates’ are also counted among the pages, as are the title sheets; and only 665 illustrations of all sorts (including the plates') are listed. This sort of publicity is misleading and, I conclude, deliberately so.