The classical parthenon : Recovering the Strangeness of the Ancient World / / William St Clair

• Autore: Clair William St
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, UK : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 325 pages)
• Disciplina: 726.120809385
• Persona (resp. second.): BarnesLucy
• Nota di contenuto: Editors' Note ix -- Preface xi -- 1. Recovering the Strangeness 1 -- Studying a Strange World 5 -- Recovering Ancient Attitudes to Religion 10 -- Myths, Origin Stories and the 'Emergence from Brutishness' Narrative 17 -- Viewing Light and Time 30 -- Looking In / Looking Out: Experiments in Recovering the Strangeness 45 -- 2. 'How do we set straight our sacred city?' 69 -- A Reflection on this Experiment 163 -- 3. Looking at the Parthenon in Classical Athens 165 -- Stories Told in Stone 174 -- Making the Mute Stones Speak: The Role of the Viewer 189 -- 4. A New Answer to an Old Question 193 -- The Scene Above the East Door 205 -- Recovering the Ancient Meanings of the Ion Myth 238 -- 5. 'On the Temple dedicated to the Divine Minerva, vulgarly called the Parthenon' 253 -- A Note on the Second Experiment 284 -- 6. Heritage 287 -- Bibliography 293 -- Illustrations 313 -- Index 317.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Classical Parthenon
• Titolo autorizzato: The classical parthenon
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910774778503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II