Tuesday, October 4, 2022

The Classical Parthenon: Recovering the Strangeness of the Ancient World

  • William St Clair (author)
  • Lucy Barnes (editor)
  • David St Clair (editor)
     
     The Classical Parthenon: Recovering the Strangeness of the Ancient World - cover image
     
    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.

    Copyright

    William St Clair

    Published On

    2022-08-24

    ISBN

    Paperback978-1-80064-344-4
    Hardback978-1-80064-345-1
    PDF978-1-80064-346-8
    HTML978-1-80064-678-0
    XML978-1-80064-349-9
    EPUB978-1-80064-347-5
    AZW3978-1-80064-348-2

    Language

    • English

    Print Length

    344 pages (xiv+330)

    Dimensions

    Paperback156 x 23 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.91" x 9.21")
    Hardback156 x 27 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.06" x 9.21")

    Weight

    Paperback654g (23.07oz)
    Hardback828g (29.21oz)

    Media

    Illustrations39

    OCLC Number

    1342253863

    LCCN

    2021386016

    BIC

    • HBLL
    • 1DVG
    • JFS

    BISAC

    • ARC005020
    • HIS042000
    • POL031000

    LCC

    • NA281
     

    Contents

    1. Recovering the Strangeness

    (pp. 1–68)
    • William St Clair
    https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0279.01

    2. ‘How do we set straight our sacred city?’

    (pp. 69–164)
    • William St Clair
    https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0279.02

    3. Looking at the Parthenon in Classical Athens

    (pp. 165–192)
    • William St Clair
    https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0279.03

    4. A New Answer to an Old Question

    (pp. 193–252)
    • William St Clair
    https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0279.04

    5. ‘On the Temple dedicated to the Divine Minerva, vulgarly called the Parthenon’

    (pp. 253–286)
    • William St Clair
    https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0279.05

    6. Heritage

    (pp. 287–292)
    • William St Clair
    https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0279.06

    Preface

    (pp. xi–xiv)
    • William St Clair
    https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0279.07
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