Title Statements
- Full title :The Parthenon enigma / Joan Breton Connelly.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vintage Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:xxiii, 485 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780307476593, 0307476596, 9780307593382, 030759338X
- oclc:on1052840159
- LC Classification:NA281
- Dewey Decimal:726/.120809385
Table of Contents
The Sacred Rock : myth and the power of place -- Before the Parthenon : gods, monsters, and the cosmos -- Periklean Pomp : The Parthenon moment and its passing -- The Ultimate Sacrifice : Founding father, mother, daughters -- The Parthenon Frieze : The key to the temple -- Why the Parthenon : War, death, and remembrance in the shaping of sacred space -- The Panathenaia : The performance of belonging and the death of the maiden -- The Well-scrubbed Legacy : The sincerest of flattery and the limits of acquired identity.
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