Left: Marble bust of Herodotos, 2nd century A.D.
Roman Copy of a Greek bronze statue of the first half of the fourth century B.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Right: Marble bust of Thucydides, lst or 2nd century B.C.
Roman copy of an early 4th century B.C. Greek portrait
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Book Cover Images:
Bottom: 'Mourning Athena', Parian Marble, Acropolis Museum95, Athens, c,460 BC. (cast, Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, Casts Archive)
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