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Built-in the fifth hundred years BC., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West's ultimate paragon of beauty and percentage. Since the Enlightenment, it has additionally come to signify our politics ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena offering as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the prices of these who built the Parthenon truly correspond with this own? And in addition to the value with which we have invested it, just what do this marvel of individual hands mean to people who made it? In this ground-breaking publication, Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most elementary assumptions about the Parthenon and the traditional Athenians. You start with the environment and its rich mythic associations, she re-creates the introduction of the Acropolis - the Sacred Rock at the heart of the city-state - from its prehistoric origins to its Periklean glory days as a constellation of temples among that your Parthenon stood supreme. In particular, she probes the Parthenon's legendary frieze: the 525-foot-long alleviation sculpture that formerly encircled the upper reaches before it was partly damaged by Venetian cannon hearth (in the 17th hundred years) and the majority of what remained was shipped off to Britain (in the 19th hundred years) on the list of Elgin marbles. The frieze's vast enigmatic procession - a dazzling pageant of cavalrymen and elders, music artists and maidens - has for more than 2 hundred years been considered to represent a scene of gross annual civic special event in the birthplace of democracy. But because of a once-lost play by Euripides (the finding which, in the wrappings of an Hellenistic Egyptian mummy, is only one of this book's intriguing ventures), Connelly has uncovered a long-buried interpretation, a story of individual sacrifice set during the city's mythic founding.
