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In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts
The stories behind the acquisition of ancient antiquities are often as important as those that tell of their creation. This fascinating book provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of classical archaeology, explaining how and why artifacts have moved from foreign soil to collections around the world.As archaeologist Stephen Dyson shows, Greek and Roman archaeological study was closely intertwined with ideas about class and social structure; the rise of nationalism and later political ideologies such as fascism; and the physical and cultural development of most of the important art museums in Europe and the United States, whose prestige depended on their creation of collections of classical art. Accompanied by a discussion of the history of each of the major national traditions and their significant figures, this lively book shows how classical archaeology has influenced attitudes about areas as wide-ranging as tourism, nationalism, the role of the museum, and historicism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art.
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Archaeology, ideology, and urbanism in Rome from the grand tour to Berlusconi
\"This study has grown out of several long standing scholarly interests and personal enthusiasms. First and foremost is my devotion to Rome, not just the ancient city of the classicists and archaeologists, but medieval, early modern, and modern Rome. Much of that fascination comes from the fact that Rome is not a museum, but a living, dynamic city, shaped, informed, and constrained by its past, but never subservient to it\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Online review : book : \Italy's lost Greece : Magna Graecia and the making of modern archaeology\
Reviews \"Italy's lost Greece : Magna Graecia and the making of modern archaeology,\" by Giovanna Ceserani (Oxford University Press, 2012).
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The Ancient Middle Classes: Urban Life and Aesthetics in the Roman Empire, 100 B.C.E.–250 C.E
The omnipresent use of an unexamined \"middle class\" mantra allows the author to elide other topics which demand serious socio-historical analysis, most important of all the centrality of both slavery and manumission to the Roman system and the distinctive social landscape they created. [...]group identities, such as those created in institutions like the collegia, reflected complex hierarchical structures which {pace the author) would fit poorly into any nineteenthcentury middle class world.
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