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(0)Joan Breton Connelly
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xv, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest and most vivid picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them--the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena Polias--to basket bearers and handmaidens. Along the way, she challenges long-held beliefs to show that priestesses played...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 485 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A revolutionary new understanding of the most famous and influential building in the world, a thesis that calls into question our basic understanding of the ancient civilization that we most identify with. For more than two millennia, the Parthenon has been revered as the symbol of Western culture, the epitome of the ancient society from which we derive our highest ideals. It was understood to honor the city-state's patron deity Athena, and its intricately...