Erased from History: 11 Books on Extinct Cities
Eleven Literary and Archaeological Journeys Through Pompeii, Troy, Nineveh, and Lost CivilizationsBy William Shakespeare, Richard Short, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Jensen, August Mau, Heinrich Schliemann, Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, R. N. Hall, Gustave Flaubert, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Austen Henry Layard
Length120h 53m
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Erased from History gathers eleven writings in which vanished cities become sites of excavation, fantasy, mourning, and intellectual recovery. Its range is unusually capacious: drama and fiction meet psychoanalytic case history, archaeological report, travel narrative, religious antiquarianism, and speculative satire. Classical ruins, biblical landscapes, and buried urban worlds are approached not merely as dead locations but as provocations to memory and imagination. Particularly compelling are the collection's juxtapositions of recovered material evidence with narratives of dream, desire, catastrophe, and civic loss. The contributors represent a remarkable convergence of literary and scholarly traditions. Canonical dramatists and novelists encounter archaeologists of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, historians of monuments, collectors of sacred antiquities, and a foundational theorist of the unconscious. Their distinct methods reflect nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fascinations with excavation, imperial collecting, classical reception, biblical archaeology, and the emerging sciences of mind. Together, these voices reveal how the discovery of extinct cities shaped modern ideas of civilization, ruin, historical evidence, and cultural inheritance. This volume is especially recommended for readers of literature, archaeology, classics, cultural history, and memory studies. It offers the rare opportunity to follow a sustained dialogue between imaginative reconstruction and empirical investigation, while comparing radically different styles of representing the past. Erased from History is both an instructive introduction to lost urban worlds and a rich invitation to consider why ruins continue to demand interpretation.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length120 hrs 53 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The History of Troilus and Cressida
26CHAPTER XIV
2The History of Troilus and Cressida
27CHAPTER XV
3Dramatis Personæ
28Troy and Its Remains
4ACT III
29PREFACE BY THE EDITOR.
5ACT V
30AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF DR. HENRY SCHLIEMANN. FROM THE PREFACE TO HIS ‘ITHACA, THE PELOPONNESUS, AND TROY.’
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6Saronia
31WORK AT HISSARLIK IN 1871.
7Saronia
32WORK AT HISSARLIK IN 1872. (pt. 1)
8CHAPTER I
33WORK AT HISSARLIK IN 1872. (pt. 2)
9CHAPTER V
34WORK AT HISSARLIK IN 1873. (pt. 1)
10CHAPTER XIII
35WORK AT HISSARLIK IN 1873. (pt. 2)
11CHAPTER XIX
36APPENDIX. ON THE INSCRIPTIONS FOUND AT HISSARLIK. By The Editor.
12CHAPTER XXV
37LIST OF INSCRIPTIONS
13CHAPTER XXIX
38ERRATUM.
14CHAPTER XXXVI
39Mycenæ
15CHAPTER XLII
40PREFACE.
16Salammbo
41COMPARATIVE TABLE OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH MEASURES, EXACT AND APPROXIMATE.
17Salammbo
42CHAPTER I.
18CHAPTER I
43CHAPTER II.
19CHAPTER III
44CHAPTER III.
20CHAPTER V
45CHAPTER IV.
21CHAPTER VII
46CHAPTER V.
22CHAPTER VIII
47CHAPTER VI.
23CHAPTER IX
48CHAPTER VII.
24CHAPTER XI
49CHAPTER VIII.
25CHAPTER XIII
50CHAPTER IX.
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