John Ma is Professor of Classics at Columbia University. His books include ‘Statues and Cities: Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World’.

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Relief with three Palmyrene gods (1st century), Bir Wereb, near Palmyra. Musée du Louvre, Paris.

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The art of power in ancient Pergamon

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