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 professor of classics and art history at New York University.
“Exciting and revelatory. . . . That rare thing: the exposition of
a truly great idea, and a reminder of what a thrilling subject the
past, that foreign country, can be.” —The New York Times Book
Review
“Joan Connelly’s brilliant study of the Parthenon shows how a myth
can reveal as many secrets as a rock or a ruin, and how rethinking
what we know about antiquity can help us better understand
ourselves today.” —George Lucas, creator of the Star
Wars saga
“A detailed portrait.” —The Washington Post
“More than ingenious. . . . The most convincing explanation of the
entire Parthenon program so far put before us.” —Nigel Spivey,
Greece & Rome
“Learned, ambitious . . . up to date with the excellent theoretical
work of recent decades. It is time to change the textbooks
and the museum labels.” —Times Literary Supplement.
“Connelly’s theory is attractive and plausible, and is backed by a
considerable breadth and depth of scholarship—archaeological,
visual, and textual.” —A.E. Stallings, The Weekly Standard
(London)
“Original, insightful and convincing. . . . A very important book:
thoroughly researched and written for the intelligent reader. . . .
[Connelly] breaks new ground.” —Huffington Post
“Connelly’s groundbreaking work will forever change our conception
of the most important building in the history of Western
civilization. By cracking the hidden code of the Parthenon, she
reveals the classical world in a radical new light that will
reorient how we all view its legacy for the twenty-first century.”
—Tom Reiss, author of The Black Count, winner of the Pulitzer
Prize
“General readers with an interest in Greek history and architecture
will find The Parthenon Enigma fascinating. . . . [It reads like a]
supremely intelligent riff on a Dan Brown novel.” —Richmond
Times-Dispatch
“A careful, learned account and a good read.” —The New York Review
of Books
“Gracefully written, informative. . . . Engaging and intensely
interesting. . . . Thoughtful, stimulating, and unquestionably
valuable.” —J.J. Pollitt, The New Criterion
“Connelly’s interpretation [offers an] even positive message, one
that speaks to the influence of the Parthenon in the fields of
architecture, government and the very nature of civilized society.”
—New York Post
“Learned and elegant . . . a powerful case for a new understanding
of the Parthenon, its original meaning as a religious object,
and for the fullest possible restoration of its many parts still
scattered far and wide.” —Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor Emeritus
of Classics and History, Yale University, and author of The
Peloponnesian War
“Masterly. . . . Connelly’s depth of knowledge and scholastic
effort shine through brilliantly.” —Library Journal (starred)
“Luminous . . . courageously and intelligently starting from
scratch, Joan Connelly reconstructs the meaning of the Parthenon. .
. . The unfamiliar picture that emerges gives us all a sharper
vision of what this timeless monument can still mean to our own
troubled world.” —Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of
Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature,
Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University
“Gripping.” —Metropolis Magazine
“Edifying. . . . A book for all who seek direction and are capable
of seeing the bigger picture.” —Kirkus
“Persuasive. . . . This detailed, smart, and tantalizing study
offers much to savor.” —Publishers Weekly
“Connelly’s book is one for the twenty-first century, full of
new finds and fresh insights.” —Angelos Chaniotis, Professor of
Ancient History and Classics, Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton
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