The use of mythological subjects in fourth- and fifth-century visual culture has attracted considerable scholarly interest in recent years. It has always been accepted that gods and classical myths were commonly represented on late antique mosaics and silverware; the manufacture of statues and statuettes was, however, believed to have died out in the later third century. Recent studies by Niels Hannestad and Marianne Bergmann have demonstrated that small-scale statuettes—if not life-size sculptures—of gods and classical heroes were still produced in the fourth century (Hannestad, Tradition in Late Antique Sculpture: Conservation, Modernization, Production. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1994; and Bergmann, Chiragan, Aphrodisias, Konstantinopel. Zur mythologischen Skulptur der Spätantike. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1999). Given the highly specialized and technical nature of this topic, Lea Stirling’s attempt to contextualize fourth- and fifth-century mythological statuettes within the domestic architecture of late antiquity provides a welcome and highly accessible survey of the evidence. Stirling builds her narrative around a group of mostly fragmentary statuettes that adorned unusually large late-antique villas in Aquitaine. Two introductory chapters outline the methodological difficulties of contextualizing statues within domestic architecture: sculptures are rarely found in situ but rather as disconnected fragments scattered over mostly ill-documented sites. It cannot be taken for...