The Parthenon Enigma
by Connelly, Joan Breton
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 030759338X
- ISBN 13
- 9780307593382
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About This Item
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2014. Second Printing. Hardcover. 030759338X . Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. xxiii, 485pp. Illustrated endpapers, black and white photos and illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, and credits. A new understanding of the West's most iconic building and the people who made it. (from the front jacket) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
JOAN BRETON CONNELLY is a classical archaeologist and the author of two previous books, Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece and Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus . She received her A.B. in classics from Princeton University and Ph.D. in classical and Near Eastern archaeology from Bryn Mawr College, where she now serves on the board of trustees. In 1996, Professor Connelly was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She received the Archaeological Institute of America’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2007 and held NYU’s Lillian Vernon Chair for Teaching Excellence in 2002–2004. She has held visiting fellowships at All Souls College, Magdalen College, New College, and Corpus Christi College at Oxford University, and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, and has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Professor Connelly has excavated throughout Greece, Kuwait, and Cyprus where she has directed the Yeronisos Island Excavations since 1990. She is currently a professor of classics and art history at New York University.
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58062
- Title
- The Parthenon Enigma
- Author
- Connelly, Joan Breton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 030759338X
- ISBN 13
- 9780307593382
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- 030759338X, Parthenon, Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek Architecture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture & Construction; Archaeology and Ancient History;
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