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18th c. understanding?
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Hello again!

I'm going to have to "ask around" this question a bit, as I know the general sort of information I'm trying to root out, but don't yet know enough to know what I don't know or where to start looking to learn more. So I hope this isn't too confusing. Smile


Anyhow, I came into my interest in Roman stuff via reading about the American founding, and constantly seeing references in letters and handbills to Classical sources.

It's my understanding from reading so far that most of the written sources we have now were known then, but there was little or no archaeological verification for the sources. Is that correct?

Is there a good overview available for how the last two hundred years have changed our understanding and interpretation of the sources? What authors might have been taken at face value and later rejected, or vice versa?

If we were to sit down with a well educated gentleman of 1760 say - what would he be surprised to hear from scholars today, and what would he just take as common knowledge?


Thank you!
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18th c. understanding? - by Jennifer - 12-26-2011, 02:12 PM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by Avile - 12-26-2011, 03:39 PM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by Medicus matt - 12-26-2011, 04:37 PM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by D B Campbell - 12-26-2011, 04:58 PM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by Caballo - 12-26-2011, 05:14 PM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by richard - 12-26-2011, 06:45 PM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by Robert Vermaat - 12-26-2011, 08:23 PM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by Robert Vermaat - 12-26-2011, 08:35 PM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by Renatus - 12-26-2011, 10:36 PM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by D B Campbell - 12-27-2011, 04:59 AM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by Epictetus - 12-27-2011, 11:40 AM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by Robert Vermaat - 12-27-2011, 04:31 PM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by D B Campbell - 12-28-2011, 06:38 AM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by D B Campbell - 12-28-2011, 06:47 PM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by Nathan Ross - 12-28-2011, 08:18 PM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by D B Campbell - 12-29-2011, 12:13 AM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by Lyceum - 01-03-2012, 03:36 AM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by D B Campbell - 01-03-2012, 05:20 AM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by M. Demetrius - 01-03-2012, 05:51 AM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by Lyceum - 01-03-2012, 06:17 AM
Re: 18th c. understanding? - by D B Campbell - 01-03-2012, 04:12 PM

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