The Parthenon Enigma (124 page)

Authors: Joan Breton Connelly

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Socratis Mavrommatis photographing Parthenon, 1988, by Tina Skar.

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U.S. Custom House, New York, 1833–1842. Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis, architects. © Lawrence A. Martin/Artifice Images.

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Parthenon frieze and plaster casts of frieze. Athens, Acropolis Museum. © Acropolis Museum.

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Parthenon frieze in Duveen Gallery. London, British Museum. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

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Acropolis, view from Monastiraki Square. © Robert A. McCabe, 1954–1955.

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(top) Orthophotomosaic of Acropolis, 2009. Acropolis Restoration Service, Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports.

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(bottom) Acropolis, east and south slopes, east cave. Kevin T. Glowacki, 2005.

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(top) Limestone snake from Bluebeard Temple pediment (Hekatompedon?). Athens, Acropolis Museum. © Acropolis Museum. Socratis Mavrommatis.

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(bottom) Hypothetical visualization of Archaic Acropolis with Hekatompedon and Old Athena Temple. D. Tsalkanis,
www.ancientathens3d.com
.

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(top) Bluebeard monster, Bluebeard Temple pediment (Hekatompedon?). Athens, Acropolis Museum. © Acropolis Museum. Socratis Mavrommatis.

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(bottom) Zeus battling Typhon, Chalkidean hydria, Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlung 596. Bibi Saint-Pol, 2007-02-09.

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(top) Herakles wrestling Triton, Bluebeard pediment (Hekatompedon?). Athens, Acropolis Museum. © Acropolis Museum. Socratis Mavrommatis.

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(bottom) Raking cornice with lotus flowers, Bluebeard Temple pediment (Hekatompedon?). Athens, Acropolis Museum. © Acropolis Museum. S. Mavrommatis.

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(left) Birth of Athena, east pediment, Parthenon. Nointel Artist and S. Mavrommatis. After C. Hadziaslani and S. Mavrommatis,
Promenades at the Parthenon
(2000), 132–33.

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(right) Contest of Athena and Poseidon, west pediment, Parthenon. Nointel Artist and S. Mavrommatis. After C. Hadziaslani and S. Mavrommatis,
Promenades at the Parthenon
(2000), 134–35.

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(top) Sacrificial procession to altar of Athena, Attic kylix, private collection, London. Widmer 837.

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(bottom) Akanthos akroterion, Parthenon. Athens, Acropolis Museum. © Acropolis Museum. Nikos Danilidis.

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(top) Processional route along the Panathenaic Way. akg-images/ P. Connolly.

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(bottom) Replica of Athena Parthenos Statue by A. LeQuire, 1982–2002. Nashville, Tennessee, Parthenon. Metropolitan Government of Nashville/Gary Layda.

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(top) Man approaching altar on which owl is perched, sheep and bull await sacrifice, hydria. Uppsala, Uppsala University (352). © Uppsala University.

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(bottom)
Pheidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to His Friends
, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1868. Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. © Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

A Note About the Author

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
. In 1996, Professor Connelly was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. 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 at 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.