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[See now also Pike’s article “Bernard Silvestris’ Descent into the Classics: TheCommentum super sex libros Aeneidos” in this journal (IJCT), 4 (1997/98), pp. 343–363.—W.H.]
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A notorious example of pseudo-scientific appeal to the prestigious associations of classical sculpture appeared in the widely discussed racial treatise of the antebellum period,Types of Mankind (Philadelphia, 1854), by J. C. Nott and G. R. Gliddon, where the Apollo Belvedere seems to represent white man in contrast to the caricature of a black (fig. 1.1).
Blacks in Antiquity (Cambridge, MA, 1970) andBefore Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks (ibid.,Blacks in Antiquity (Cambridge, MA, 1983)).
It is worth noting that the concept of listing names reflects not only recent memorial practice (e.g., the Vietnam Veterans Memorial) but also Williams’ earlier desire to recognize and honor black soldiers, since he claimed that history always exalts the lone hero over the collective mass, as in the memorial for the three hundred Spartans who died at Thermopylae in 480 BC, where the single figure depicted was Leonidas (192).
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Samons, L.J., Mossé, C., Barnes, J. et al. Book reviews. Int class trad 7, 265–313 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02691401
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