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SUMMARY:Joan Breton Connelly will read from her latest book The Parthenon Enigma
DESCRIPTION:In this revolutionary book\, Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians. Beginning with the natural environment and its rich mythic associations\, she re-creates the development 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 which the Parthenon stood supreme. In particular\, she probes the Parthenon’s legendary frieze: the 525-foot-long relief sculpture that originally encircled the upper reaches before it was partially destroyed by Venetian cannon fire (in the seventeenth century) and most of what remained was shipped off to Britain (in the nineteenth century) among the Elgin marbles. The frieze’s vast enigmatic procession—a dazzling pageant of cavalrymen and elders\, musicians and maidens—has for more than two hundred years been thought to represent a scene of annual civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But thanks to a once-lost play by Euripides (the discovery of which\, in the wrappings of a Hellenistic Egyptian mummy\, is only one of this book’s intriguing adventures)\, Connelly has uncovered a long-buried meaning\, a story of human sacrifice set during the city’s mythic founding. In a society startlingly preoccupied with cult ritual\, this story was at the core of what it meant to be Athenian. Connelly reveals a world that beggars our popular notions of Athens as a city of staid philosophers\, rationalists\, and rhetoricians\, a world in which our modern secular conception of democracy would have been simply incomprehensible.
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