Splendors Of The Dead
Garry Wills writes: ‘Twenty-one Greek museums and four North American museums have cooperated to collect over five hundred artifacts from Ancient Greece in an extraordinary exhibition called “The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great.†The show went first to Canada (Montreal, then Ottawa), where it had 280,000 visitors. It is now on view at the Field Museum in Chicago, in a series of superbly lit rooms, and will continue to Washington, D.C., in May.’ Pictured is a gold “mask of Agamemnon†from Mycenae, sixteenth century BC, in a a nineteenth-century replica by Émile Gilliéron.
