Artifact & artifice : classical archaeology and the ancient historian / Jonathan M. Hall.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.

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"?.