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Artifact & artifice : classical archaeology and the ancient historian / Jonathan M. Hall.
Penn Museum Library DE59 .H35 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Jonathan M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeology and history--Greece.
- Archaeology and history.
- Archaeology and history--Rome.
- Greece--Antiquities.
- Greece.
- Antiquities.
- Greece--Historiography.
- Historiography.
- Rome--Antiquities.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Rome--Historiography.
- Christian antiquities.
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Artifact and artifice
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]
- 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"?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 022609698X
- 9780226313382
- 0226313387
- 9780226096988
- OCLC:
- 843010533
- Publisher Number:
- 99956804208
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