Parthenon Enigma A Journey into Legend

Name: Parthenon Enigma A Journey into Legend
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ISBN: 9780307593382

ISBN-10: 030759338X

ISBN-13: 9780307593382

Edition: 2014

Authors: Joan Breton Connelly

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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 sculpted surface believed to depict a celebration of civic continuity in the birthplace of democracy. But through a close reading of a lost play by Euripides, accidentally discovered on a papyrus wrapping an Egyptian mummy, Joan Connelly…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/28/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 6.58" wide x 9.56" long x 1.56" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English