ELIZABETH R. MACAULAY is Professor of Liberal Studies, Anthropology, Classics, Middle Eastern Studies, and Digital Humanities at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She is the author or editor of seven books, including Archaeological Ambassadors (2024) and Antiquity in Gotham (2021). Her essays and videos for Smarthistory.org, the Center for Public Art History, have been viewed by over 1.4 million people.

• Introduction; 1. The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893: A Phantasmagoric Dream of Antiquity; 2. The Athens of the South: The Parthenon, a Pyramid, and Neo-Antique Architecture at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of 1897; 3. The Wild West Meets Greece and Rome: Neo-Antique Architecture at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898; 4. When Is Classical No Longer Classical?: The Grandeur of 'Free Renaissance' Architecture at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904; 5. The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules: Constructing Roman Ruins, Arches, Columns, and Baths at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco; Conclusions; Bibliography. Index.

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