Book Review of Eulimene: Studies in Classical Archaeology, Epigraphy, Numismatics and Papyrology. 7 vols., edited by Nikos Litinas and Manolis I. Stefanakis

Abstract

In this decade of “summing up” the field of classical archaeology—critical essays, review articles, and ubiquitous handbooks and companions—there is a tendency toward reductive definitions of trends that read more like advocacy, or prescripts for disciplinary agendas, than critical summaries of the field itself (e.g., S.E. Alcock and R. Osborne, eds., Classical Archaeology [Oxford 2007]; R. Osborne, “Greek Archaeology: A Survey of Recent Work,” AJA 108 [2004] 87–102). This is inevitable because such work can only claim to emphasize singular strands among multiple discourses.