Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology

With 1125 ent­ries and 170 cont­ri­bu­tors, this en­cy­clo­pe­dia on the his­tory of clas­si­cal ar­cheo­logy fo­cu­ses on Greek and Roman ma­te­rial, but also co­vers the preh­is­to­ric and semi-historical cul­tu­res of the Bronze Age Ae­gean and the Etru­scans and ma­ni­fes­ta­ti­ons of Greek and Roman cul­ture in France and Asia Minor. Un­like re­cent stu­dies that focus on the sci­ence of ex­ca­vating, this book also con­siders ar­chaeo­lo­gi­cal study in the Middle Age, the Re­nais­sance and the mo­dern era. It in­clu­des ent­ries on in­di­vi­du­als whose ac­tivi­ties in­flu­en­ced the know­ledge of sites and mo­nu­ments in their own time; ar­ti­cles on fa­mous mo­nu­ments and sites as seen, chan­ged and in­ter­pre­ted through time; and ent­ries on major works of art ex­ca­va­ted du­ring the Re­nais­sance and the 17th cen­tury as well as works that were known in the Middle Ages. All of the ent­ries in­clude some his­to­ri­cal con­tent. Most com­bine his­to­ri­cal in­for­ma­tion with de­scrip­tive ma­te­rial that iden­ti­fies and ex­plains the topic, opi­ni­ons of ar­chaeo­lo­gists past and present, and re­fe­ren­ces to achie­ve­ments in ar­chaeo­lo­gi­cal scho­lar­ship. As the de­fi­ni­tive source on a com­pa­ra­tively new di­sci­pline - the his­tory of ar­chaeo­logy - this vo­lume should be use­ful to stu­dents and scho­lars in ar­chaeo­logy, clas­sics, his­tory, to­po­gra­phy, art his­tory and ar­chi­tec­tu­ral his­tory.