If a scholar wishes to create a picture of a modern society in all
its aspects, there is little of what he needs to know that he
cannot know, although there may still be much that he cannot
understand. For the history of Greece and Rome, there is a great
deal which is simply unknowable. From the end of the archaic age of
Greece, there is an unbroken sequence of works by Greek and, later,
Roman historians down to the end of antiquity. But their vision and
range of interest were often limited and much of what they did
produce has been lost. Some help may be derived from the
documentary material produced in antiquity, material which was the
product of officials organising public activities, or heads of
families organising their affairs, or individuals leaving their
mark on the world. Beyond this, the evidence of archaeology and
numismatics may also be helpful. The four essays in this book set
out to characterise the nature of the ancient literary tradition,
the inscriptional material, the archaeological and numismatic
evidence and to explain how and for what purposes they may be used.
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