The philosophical writings of Cicero (1st century BCE) anecdotally provide a frame for reflection of the concept of discovery in the field of the Classics. While in Sicily, Cicero discovers the grave of the famous mathematician and scientist Archimedes (3rd century BCE) in an overgrown area. According to tradition, Archimedes ran excitedly on the streets shouting ‘Eurēka’ (more accurately, ‘Heúrēka’ — ‘I have found [it]’) when reaching an insight while bathing. This gave rise to an oversimplified but tenacious concept of scientific discovery, which Thomas Kuhn and others have been at pains to debunk. The goal of this chapter is to consider the notion of discovery within Greco-Roman studies themselves. Not even in ancient times was ‘discovery’ as the Archimedes story suggests. If classics is a field with many disciplines, analogous in some respects to area studies, rather than a single discipline, one should identify some of the different ‘discovery’ types. From some of the case studies, it emerges that rediscovery is a more appropriate characterization of the dynamics involved. This reflects not a lack of originality but the need to reframe knowledge for ever-changing contexts.