therefore, it signifies a word about or study of antiquity. And that is how the term was employed by ancient writers. Plato, for example, notes that the Lacedaemonians “are very fond of hearing about the genealogies of heroes and men, Socrates, and the foundations of cities in ancient times and, in short, about archaeology in general” (Hippias 285d). In the introduction to the History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides summarizes the earlier history of Greece under the title “Archaeology.” Denis