Hall, Jonathan M., author.
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.
- 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 ?.
Subjects:
- Archaeology and history — Greece.
- Archaeology and history — Rome.
- Greece — Antiquities.
- Greece — Historiography.
- Rome — Antiquities.
- Rome — Historiography.
- Christian antiquities.
- Church history — Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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