Reclaiming the Past: Argos and Its Archaeological Heritage in the Modern Era

by Jonathan M. Hall

Reclaiming the Past examines the post-antique history of Argos and how the city's archaeological remains have been perceived and experienced since the late eighteenth century by both local residents and foreign visitors to the Greek Peloponnese. The first western visitors to Argos--a city continuously inhabited for six millennia--invariably expected to encounter landscapes described in classical texts--yet what they found fell...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150176053X
• ISBN13: 9781501760532
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"