Ozymandius and ‘Those Passions Which Yet Survive’

Two millennia ago, the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus was dazzled by his view of a monumental statue at Aswan.

- By Cynthia Ozick

“It is not simply for its size that this work merits approbation,” he wrote, “but it is also marvelous by reason of its artistic quality and excellent because of the nature of its stone, since in a block of so great a size there is not a single cr