are in the main hall and quickly found us. Each seemed a little crazed by the nubile statues they couldn't touch, though the mask, which a student had described as menacing but looks more confounded, especially from the side, reminded us that we can't read the affect of ancient figures.
This late 4th century BCE Greek bronze box mirror, in one of the adjacent galleries, was a little harder to find, and is beautiful in ways mainly found in much later art, from a time when the human form was considered safe from animal transforma-tions. But the real fun came
with tracking down a blissed out little late 5th-4th century BCE Peloponnesian statuette (which might not even be Pan!). In part this was because the deserted mezzanine gallery it was in proved a vast collection of glass cases overflowing with works of all kinds, and it wasn't with all the other bronze figurines! By the time an intrepid student found it with other archaic works from Boeotia, Laconia and Euboea, we had been exposed to myriad beings mixing animal, human and divine forms. This terrific entourage reminded us of the porosity of all these categories. Pluralistic pantheism indeed!
