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dc.contributor.authorL. Dyson, Stephen-
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-13T06:38:51Z-
dc.date.available2019-03-13T06:38:51Z-
dc.date.issued2006-
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-300-11097-5-
dc.identifier.urihttp://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/53015-
dc.descriptionThis is a book about classical archaeology in the past two centuries. It explores the changes in the modern age to a fi eld of study that by then was already old. This was the period in which an avocational interest became an academic discipline. But classical archaeology had many other faces during this period. The expansion of the educated middle class created new rosters of amateurs who identifi ed with the Greek and Roman past. These amateurs formed the legions of new tourists who replaced the Grand Tour aristocrats at Rome and Pompeii. Histories and myths associated with ancient Greece and Rome became caught up with national histories in an imperialist age. A French emperor sponsored the excavation of the hill fort where Julius Caesar defeated the Gallic chieftain Vercingetorix. An Italian dictator demanded that archaeologists clear the fora of the Caesars to provide an appropriate backdrop to his military parades. A history of classical archaeology during the past two hundred years, then, must be a history of professionalization and the advancement of knowledge, but it must also be a cultural, social, and even political history.-
dc.languageenen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherYale Universityen_US
dc.subjectArchaeology—History—19th centuryen_US
dc.titleIn Pursuit of Ancient Pastsen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
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