Le Dieu-Masque. Une figure du Dionysos d'Athènes.

'Like the god it discusses, this book is characterized by a tension between opposited. On the one hand it is a careful archaeological evaluation of some artifacts from fifth-century Athens, while on the other had it is a highly theoretical consideration of the significance of 'psosopon' in an understanding of the fifth-century Attic worship of Dionysos. The tension between the two is not always a happy one; nevertheless, the book is both stimulating and useful. (.) Though F.'s primary interest is in the meaning of the mask, the enduring value of the book is in her careful and responsible treatment of the physical evidence she presents - principally the vases and the images on them. Catalogues include 76 'Lenaia' vases, thirty vases with masks of Dionysos or satyrs on them as principal decorations, four marble masks and forty-two of terra cotta. F. has illustrated the book with more than 150 clear drawings and photographs, which include almost all of the specific objects mentioned in the text. F. has done scholars a service in returning the focus of the discussion of the 'Lenaia' vases to the objects themselves, where it belongs, and in demonstrating the enormous complexity of such scenes.' (T.H. CARPENTER in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1993, pp.203-204). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux.