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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