At 12:03 AM 01/03/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>The point of the statues is that they are good evidence only if (like
>the ones of Augustus you mention) they are in a datable context.
I hope you are not arguing that a statue implies that we are dealing with a
real person. Homer talks about many gods whio haev satues,a nd then about
some of their actions. I think we have to distinguish here.