Artifact & artifice : classical archaeology and the ancient historian / Jonathan M. Hall.
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Classical archaeology: the "handmaid of history"?
- The rediscovery of the past
- The opening up of Greece
- Philological archaeology
- The birth of prehistory
- Theory wars
- Delphic vapours
- The triumph of science?
- The Delphic oracle
- The geology of the site
- Inspired mantic or fraudulent puppet?
- The Persian destruction of Eretria
- A tale of two temples
- Yet another temple?
- Unmooring "fixed points"
- Science to the rescue?
- Eleusis, the oath of Plataia, and the peace of Kallias
- The archaios neos at Eleusis
- The oath of Plataia
- The peace of Kallias
- Restoring the sanctuaries of Attica
- Sokrates in the Athenian agora
- The house of Simon
- The state prison
- Sokrates on death row
- The tombs at Vergina
- The discovery of the tombs
- The political dimension
- Aigeai and Vergina
- The occupants of tomb II
- The tomb and its contents
- A third possibility
- The city of Romulus
- Untangling the foundation myths of Rome
- Romulus and Remus
- The early kings materialized?
- State formation and urbanization
- The birth of the Roman republic
- The temple of Jupiter Capitolinus
- The fall of a tyrant
- The nature of the kingship
- The origins of the consulship
- "Etruscan" Rome
- Imperial austerity: the house of Augustus
- The house unearthed
- From dux to princeps
- Reconciling the evidence
- The bones of St. Peter
- The discovery of the tomb
- Beneath St. Peter's
- Peter in Rome
- Peter on the Appian Way
- Peter in Jerusalem
- Postscript: the tomb of St. Philip
- Conclusion: classical archaeology and the ancient historian
- Navigating between textual and material evidence
- Words and things
- Bridging the "great divide"?