Category: antiquity...

• professional actors and dancers knowing since antiquity that body gestures may also generate a vocabulary of communication more or less unique to each culture
• finding out why ancient cities are buried in layers
• digging for ancient artifacts in Kobuk Valley, north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska
• discovering a lost manuscript of ancient Latin poetry
• figuring out what went on in the ancient Greek mystery rituals at Eleusis
• finding an ancient papyrus scroll in the caves of Egypt
• learning ancient Greek
• the mystery of Stonehenge in England
• the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC
• a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific achievements that formed a legacy with unparalleled influence on Western civilization
• Egypt dating from the 3rd millennium BC up to the Islamic conquest in the 7th century AD, its many achievements, preserved in its art, monuments, and archaeological finds which expose its secrets
• Rome growing from a small town on the Tiber River in central Italy into a vast empire that ultimately embraced England, all of continental Europe west of the Rhine and south of the Danube, most of Asia west of the Euphrates, northern Africa, and the islands of the Mediterranean
• those in antiquity who who excelled in intellectual and artistic endeavors, and those who achieved greatness in their military, political, and social institutions
• All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,-is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now. (R.W. Emerson)
• To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity. (B. Bunting)
• It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. (Desiderius Erasmus)

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