The Parthenon Enigma; A New Understanding of the West's Most Iconic Building and the People Who Made It
by Connelly, Joan Breton
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. Hardcover. pp. 485. 8vo. General shelfwear, pencil marginalia and underlining throughout; very good in very good dustjacket.
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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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- Title
- The Parthenon Enigma; A New Understanding of the West's Most Iconic Building and the People Who Made It
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- Connelly, Joan Breton
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- Hardcover
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- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
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