Francesca Piqué is a conservation specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute

Howard Besser

For historic resources—whether a cultural landscape

249 b/w illustrations

Classical Love Poetry Holiday 2023 Francesca Piqué is a conservationEdited, and with an introduction, by Jonathan Williams Contributions by Clive Cheesman This volume pairs elections of translated Greek and Roman verse from Homer, Sappho, Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, among others, with fine examples of paintings, sculpture, vases, and decorative objects. The excerpts, which cover the period from the eighth century BCE to the early Middle Ages, were chosen from famous works, such as Homer's Iliad, as well as less well