Panorama of the theatre at Pergamon. (Professor Fred Winter, 1988)

Those of us who specialize in archaeological research which focuses on some aspect of the cultures that once existed in what constitutes today as the national borders of the modern Greek state tend to overlook how our broadly-defined sub-discipline called “Greek archaeology” came to its present state. In the last decade or so there has been an increasing interest in examining the history of Greek archaeology from its beginnings in the publications of the early European travelers.

Metope from Temple C at Selinus. From the National Museum at Palermo. (Professor Fred Winter, 1988)