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The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of the West's Most Iconic Building

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#267541
Titel	The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of the West's Most Iconic Building
Auteur	Connelly, Joan Breton
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York, Alfred A. Knopf
Jaar van uitgave	2014
ISBN10	030759338X
ISBN13	9780307593382
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	A radical new interpretation of the meaning and purposes of one of the world's most iconic buildings. For more than two millennia, the Parthenon has been revered as the symbol of Western culture and its highest ideals. It was understood to honour the city-state's patron deity, Athena, and its sculptures to depict a civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But through a close reading of a lost play by Euripides, Joan Connelly has developed a theory that has sparked fierce controversy. Here she explains that our most basic sense of the Parthenon and the culture that built it may have been crucially mistaken. Re-creating the ancient structure, and using a breathtaking range of textual and visual evidence, she uncovers a monument glorifying human sacrifice set in a world of cult rit... (Lees verder)ual quite alien to our understanding of the word 'Athenian'.
Pagina's	485
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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