By Richard Hodges
Hodges reports Virgil's lengthy impact on Butrint and the way its topographic archaeology has now helped to invent a brand new narrative and identification. He then describes the fight of placemaking in Albania throughout the early post-communist period, and at last asks, within the mild of the Butrint Foundation's event, who concerns within the shaping of a spot – overseas rules, the country, the archaeologist, the customer, the local people or a few mixture of all of those stakeholders? With applicable maps and images, this publication goals to supply an strange yet very important new path for archaeology within the Mediterranean. it may be crucial examining for archaeologists, classical historians, medievalists, cultural background experts, tourism experts in addition to these attracted to the Mediterranean's earlier and future.
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