Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Minimal staining on bottom edge and binding, allover very good and clean. / Minimale Anschmutzung auf Fu�chnitt und Einband, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - Artifact and Artifice offers an exciting excursion into the relationship between ancient history and archaeology and reveals the possibilities and limitations of using archaeological evidence in writing about the past. Jonathan M. Hall employs a series of well-known cases to investigate how historians may ignore or minimize material evidence that contributes to our knowledge of antiquity unless it correlates with information gleaned from texts. Dismantling the myth that archaeological evidence cannot impart information on its own, he illuminates the principles at stake in using such evidence and describes how the disciplines of history and classical archaeology may be enlisted to work together. - Jonathan M. Hall is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities and professor in the Departments of History and Classics and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of three books, most recently A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE. ISBN 9780226096988