Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Professor Han van Ruler, general editor of Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, Arjan van Dijk, and Ivo Romein for their exemplary collaboration. Thanks are owed also to the two anonymous readers of the manuscript for their insightful suggestions, which have considerably contributed to the improvement of several aspects of the book. We are indebted to Harvard Art Museums and especially to Dr. Susanne Ebbinghaus, George M. A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art, and Head of the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, for providing the photograph printed on the book cover. Editorial work on this volume has been supported by a subvention from the Loeb Classical Projects Fund, Harvard University.