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This is a record of an April 7-August 29, 2011, exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum; the exhibition and the text are a collaboration of the Ashmolean and the Greek Ministry of Culture. The exhibition contained 552 items that are listed at the end, but fewer than half are illustrated in the text, and discussion is minimal or absent. Macedonia underwent several episodes of widespread destruction in the years after Philip II; the artifacts from Macedonia are almost entirely fragments of items or architecture, except for the well-publicized contents of Tomb II at Verghina. There are 18 essays in English on a variety of topics by 11 authors, most of them Greek. As might be expected, the essays are uneven in quality. The intended audience is unclear; some essays are of interest only to specialists, but others will be informative and interesting to the general reader. Summing Up: Optional. Most levels/libraries. J. J. Gabbert emerita, Wright State University
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