Art and Archaeology

SUBJECT REVIEWS 143 Art and Archaeology It was in January 2008 that the Italian Republic welcomed home a large Attic redgured krater signed by Euphronios as painter, and once known as the Million-dollar vase, after its acquisition for a record-breaking sum by the New York Metropolitan Museum in 1972. New York and New Haven, CT, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2010. Though it is not suggested that the Codrus Painter set out deliberately to evoke particular monuments of Athens, the author speculates that he was, as it were, capitalizing on the citys cultural kudos: creating pots that would have been perceived as typically Athenian, typically phidianizing, and thus highly appropriate for export (84). Le roi est mort, vive le roi the peculiar sense of that slogan, originally intended to celebrate royal succession, occurred to me while perusing Ada Cohens Art in the Era of Alexander the Great.81 The study originated, she says, from the standpoint of a profound admiration for Macedonian monuments of the late Classical and early Hellenistic periods (xix).