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Sifting the soil of Greece. The early years of the British School at Athens (1886-1919) (BICS Supplement 111) (Paperback)
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Sifting the soil of Greece. The early years of the British School at Athens (1886-1919) (BICS Supplement 111) (Paperback)
Series: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements, 111
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`...what we wanted was to connect ourselves directly with the heart
of Hellenic culture so that its very lifeblood might flow through
our veins, and this we should gain by the establishment of the
school at Athens' (J.B. Lightfoot, Bishop of Durham) The British
School at Athens opened in 1886 `to promote all researches and
studies' which could `advance the knowledge of Hellenic history,
literature, and art from the earliest age to the present day'. Over
the next 30 years the School initiated a major programme of
excavations, initially on Cyprus, then at Megalopolis, on Melos,
and at Sparta. School students took part in the work of the Cretan
Exploration Fund and in the major regional surveys of the Asia
Minor Exploration Fund. Most of the students who were admitted to
the School in this period had been educated at either Cambridge or
Oxford. Women, mostly from Cambridge, took part in the School's
activities including the excavations at Phylakopi. The students'
research interests included Greek pottery, Aegean prehistory, and
epigraphy. Their experience of Greece prepared the students for
later work in British universities and other professions.
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