Word: archaeologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week an American archaeologist disclosed that he had stumbled on the locale of Socrates' trial in new excavations just north of the ancient Athenian marketplace and civic center. Professor T. Leslie Shear Jr. of Princeton University and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens identified the area as the site of the Stoa (or portico) of the Basileus. As the No. 2 man in the nine-man elected Athenian hierarchy, the basileus often acted as the city's chief magistrate. It was in this capacity that he presided over the Athenian judges who ordered Socrates...
...conservation projects against powerful interests. He was an enthusiastic sportsman who stopped hunting with a gun in favor of bow and arrow because he felt that no animal stands a chance against telescopic sights and high-powered bullets. In addition, he was a highly competent photographer, explorer and amateur archaeologist...
...Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule, a distinguished classical archaeologist, will join the Faculty this year as its only woman professor...
...Last July Francesco broke a plow on what turned out to be the limestone roof of an ancient Lucanian tomb. Such tombs, decorated with the crude paintings of the local tribesmen who made them, have been found before in southern Italy. But this one was different. When excavated by Archaeologist Mario Napoli, superintendent of antiquities for the district of Salerno, the walls of the tomb were found to be covered with accomplished paintings that to Napoli's trained eye, seemed unmistakably Greek...