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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. Name in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It has generally been dated in the second half of the second century B.C. between 120 and 100 on the basis of both archaeological and stylistic evidence such as the trompe l’oeil geometric pattern of its perspectival border with its four rosettes one on each corner. Strictly speaking then it is a Roman work fitting into a Roman context if we understand “Roman” as a chronological term in this particular case mostly designating the era of the later Roman Republic. The full complexity of the term has been unraveled by Otto Brendel who elucidated the multiple meanings ? temporal geographical cultural ethnic the designation Roman has come to encompass in scholarly analysis. As will be discussed in Chapter 7 of this book the Pompeian cultural environment that saw the creation of the Alexander Mosaic