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THE CLASSICAL REVIEW
D.s book is in fact a great step forward in the understanding of the complex dynamics of urban development and helps to underline the role played by Ravenna as an Imperial seat and as a capital of the west. Her focus on the major monuments greatly increases our knowledge and interpretation of them. D. condenses many decades of modern interpretation and reaches a definitive goal allowing historians, art historians and students of any discipline to differentiate between various hypotheses and the real existing data. This is a valuable contribution when the field of Ravenna studies is so deeply stratified and ambiguous; D. has at last made it much clearer.
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The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Fourth edition. Pp. lvi + 1592. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 (first edition 1949). Cased, 100, US$175. ISBN: 978-0-19-954556-8.
doi:10.1017/S0009840X13001315
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