This volume examines the relevance of archaeological theory to classical archaeology. It offers a wide ranging overview of classical archaeology, from the Bronze Age to the classical period and from mainland Greece to Cyprus. Within this framework it examines many of the issues which have become important in the study of archaeology in recent years: time; the past; gender; ideology; social structure and group identity. The papers in this collection cover such diverse topics as funerary architecture, classical art and scientific methodologies. By examining classical archaeology in the light of...