much less of literacy than the Romans with their high 
organization of paper in production and the book trade. The 
decline of the papyrus supplies in the later Roman Empire is a 
regularly assigned cause for the “collapse” of that Empire and 
its road system. For the Roman road was a paper route in every 
sense. (16)

     The principal theme of Seltman’s Approach to Greek Art  is 
that the major mode of Greek expression was not that of the 
sculptor but the celator  or engraver (p. 12):

          For more than four centuries men have been 
     instructed that the very best things which the Greeks ever 
     made were of marble, and that is why you may read in a 
     book on Greek art written little more than a score of years 
     ago that “sculpture was in many ways the most