Archaeology and Rediscovery in the Classical World

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This course examines (1) the search for the evidence for ancient Greek and Roman culture that survived antiquity; and (2) what that evidence reveals of those cultures. Notable archaeological finds such as those of the Athenian Acropolis and Agora and the south Italian cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, among numerous others, will be explored, alongside Renaissance (and later) rediscoveries of what the Greeks and Romans had to say about their times and places.