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Complementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly ‘the very symbol of democracy itself’, instead asking if we can truly access an ancient past imputed with modern meaning. And, if so, how? In this book Wil...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-581492022-09-07T03:03:00Z The Classical Parthenon st. clair, william Barnes, Lucy Athenian Acropolis;classical Athenian worldview;narrative analysis;Parthenon;symbol of democracy;temple structure bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1D Europe::1DV Eastern Europe::1DVG Greece bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLL Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups Complementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly ‘the very symbol of democracy itself’, instead asking if we can truly access an ancient past imputed with modern meaning. And, if so, how? In this book William St Clair presents a reconstructed understanding of the Parthenon from within the classical Athenian worldview. He explores its role and meaning by weaving together a range of textual and visual sources into two innovative oratorical experiments – a speech in the style of Thucydides and a first-century CE rhetorical exercise – which are used to develop a narrative analysis of the temple structure, revealing a strange story of indigeneity, origins, and empire. The Classical Parthenon offers new answers to old questions, such as the riddle of the Parthenon frieze, and provides a framing device for the wider relationship between visual artefacts, built heritage, and layers of accumulated cultural rhetoric. This groundbreaking and pertinent work will appeal across the disciplines to readers interested in the classics, art history, and the nature of history, while also speaking to a general audience that is interrogating the role of monuments in contemporary society. 2022-09-06T08:13:22Z 2022-09-06T08:13:22Z 2022 book 9781800643444 9781800643451 9781800643475 9781800643482 9781800643499 9781800646780 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58149 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781800643468.pdf https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0279 Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0279 10.11647/OBP.0279 23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b 9781800643444 9781800643451 9781800643475 9781800643482 9781800643499 9781800646780 ScholarLed 344 Cambridge open access
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description Complementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly ‘the very symbol of democracy itself’, instead asking if we can truly access an ancient past imputed with modern meaning. And, if so, how? In this book William St Clair presents a reconstructed understanding of the Parthenon from within the classical Athenian worldview. He explores its role and meaning by weaving together a range of textual and visual sources into two innovative oratorical experiments – a speech in the style of Thucydides and a first-century CE rhetorical exercise – which are used to develop a narrative analysis of the temple structure, revealing a strange story of indigeneity, origins, and empire. The Classical Parthenon offers new answers to old questions, such as the riddle of the Parthenon frieze, and provides a framing device for the wider relationship between visual artefacts, built heritage, and layers of accumulated cultural rhetoric. This groundbreaking and pertinent work will appeal across the disciplines to readers interested in the classics, art history, and the nature of history, while also speaking to a general audience that is interrogating the role of monuments in contemporary society.
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