
Dr Arapo-yianni kindly both supplied the photograph of the Elean mirror in fig.


Dr Ortwin Dally, for his warm hospitality and confidence in my work Bruce Marshall, for asking me to publish in Antichthon my plenary address to the 2008 Australasian Society for Classical Studies’ conference in Christchurch, New Zealand, and for kindly agreeing to consider this essay in its stead Graham Zanker, for inviting me to address the conference in the first place and finally, the following friends, students, and colleagues for their help with particular points: Beryl Barr-Sharrar, Andrea Berlin, Christopher Hallett, Rachel Lesser, Susan Rotroff, Kristen Seaman, Kim Shelton, and two anonymous reviewers for Antichthon. There, working through its splendid collection of periodicals, I came upon Xeni Arapoyianni's publication of the Elean mirror illustrated in figs 9 and 10, which I had noticed in the Elis Museum nine years previously.

This study was conceived in 1999, begun in 2005, and completed in summer 2008 on a visiting fellowship at the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut m Berlin.
