Paul Reynolds

and a New Classical Archaeology

21 September, 2021

Classical archaeology is now in a well-advanced revolution. With time, this will upend age-old notions of the Greeks and Romans, as well as their myths. Writers ranging from Shakespeare to Nobel prize winners have taken their ancient bearings from the Classical authors. Generations of archaeologists have followed suit. Descriptions by a Cicero or a Pliny have shaped how Classical archaeologists have operated and interpreted ruins. Simply put, the archaeologist’s prime job was to pursue objectives defined initially by the German Enlightenment scholar Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768). Identifying artistic genres and artists lay at the heart of his thesis. Winckelmann was to cast a long shadow, as archaeologists excavated monuments for treasures in the belief that everything about ancient life was already known other than these marvels.

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