Joan Breton Connelly
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Winner of the 2008 James R. Wiseman Book Award, Archaeological Institute of America" "Winner of the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Classics and Ancient History, Association of American Publishers" "One of New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable books for 2007" Joan Breton Connelly is Professor of Classics and Art History at New York University. She is the author of Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. A field archaeologist, she has...
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...