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Foreword
It is a pleasure to extend my thanks to the many colleagues who have
shared their expertise and to two institutions that furnished assistance
during the preparation of these texts. Eric McGeer first suggested the
project to me and was helpful at many points. George T. Dennis, Nicolas
Oikonomides, and Alice-Mary Talbot offered early and continuing support.
A sabbatical granted by the University of Maryland and a fellowship
awarded by Dumbarton Oaks (1991–92) provided sxolÆ, excellent
library facilities and a warmly collegial atmosphere for which I am
most grateful. At various points I have consulted, with great benefit,
Alexander Alexakis, Robert Farber, Stamatina McGrath, John Nesbitt,
and Gabriele and Helmut Sieg. I am particularly grateful to Lee Sherry
for reading through the penultimate version of the Greek text with me
and to Jonathan Bardill for help with the realia of the Hippodrome. The
anonymous readers provided a number of perceptive suggestions; I am
most indebted to reader “B” for detailed comments. I am deeply grateful
to the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana for permission to reproduce
the forty-two illustrations from Vaticanus graecus 1605; I am also grateful
to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Österreichische
National Bibliothek for permission to reproduce illustrations from
Parisinus supplementus graecus 607 and Vindobonensis phil. gr. 120,
respectively. I have also benefited from the assistance of the staff of the
publications office at Dumbarton Oaks, and particularly from the expertise
of Frances Kianka, Karen Rasmussen, and Glenn Ruby.
The book is dedicated to the memory of my parents, Denis F. and
Helen R. (Girard) Sullivan.
Dumbarton Oaks and
the University of Maryland,
March 1999
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