> Historians of the future will probably split Athenian history into classical, Roman, and touristic eras. Well, yes, but that's because Athens was abandoned

> Historians of the future will probably split Athenian history into classical, Roman, and touristic eras. Well, yes, but that's because Athens was abandoned in the post-classical period and had to be refounded. This was a huge blow to the archaeology of the future, but it had good nationalist symbolism.