Classical archaeology: the "handmaid of history"?
The rediscovery of the past
Inspired mantic or fraudulent puppet?
The Persian destruction of Eretria
Eleusis, the oath of Plataia, and the peace of Kallias
The archaios neos at Eleusis
Restoring the sanctuaries of Attica
Sokrates in the Athenian agora
The discovery of the tombs
The tomb and its contents
Untangling the foundation myths of Rome
The early kings materialized?
State formation and urbanization
The birth of the Roman republic
The temple of Jupiter Capitolinus
The nature of the kingship
The origins of the consulship
Imperial austerity: the house of Augustus
The discovery of the tomb
Postscript: the tomb of St. Philip
Conclusion: classical archaeology and the ancient historian
Navigating between textual and material evidence
Bridging the "great divide"?