Hesperia
Harold North Fowler and the Beginnings of American Study Tours in Greece
by Priscilla M. Murray and Curtis N. Runnels
Hesperia, Volume 76, Issue 3
Page(s): 597-626
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Year: 2007
ABSTRACT:
Site-based study tours have been integral to the teaching of Greek archaeology at the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ (ASCSA) since it was founded in 1881, and at other American institutions of higher education as well. The authors present the diary of one such tour taken in 1883 by Harold North Fowler, a member of the first class of students at the ASCSA. Fowler's diary demonstrates the importance of travel in the training of archaeologists and is of further interest because of the immediacy of the personal impressions recorded by a student of Greek archaeology toward the end of the 19th century.