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Traces of the Past : Classics between History and Archaeology /

"What are we doing when we walk into an archaeological museum or onto an archaeological site? What do the objects and features we encounter in these unique places mean and, more specifically, how do they convey to us something about the beliefs and activities of formerly living humans? In short...

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Autor principal: Bassi, Karen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: Seeing the Past
  • The Landscape of the Past in Hesiod's Theogony
  • The Hypothetical Past and the Achaean Wall in the Iliad
  • Blinded by Time : The Past "As If" in the Odyssey
  • "Up to My Time" : The Fading of the Past in Herodotus' Histories
  • Tragedy Vanishes : Reading the Past in Aristophanes' Frogs
  • Epilogue: Reading the Past.