All for Athena: Demystifying the Parthenon Frieze

2016

One of the world’s most beautiful and iconic structures, the Parthenon, the temple of the Virgin goddess Athena, boldly displays the culmination of culture and civilization upon the Acropolis in Athens, Greece and in Centennial Park in Nashville, Tennessee. I have attempted to research the history, architecture, and sculpture of the magnificent marble edifice by analyzing the key themes and elements that compose the great work: culture, civilization, and rebirth. Using a musical sonata form to display my research, I wished to convey a digestible analysis of how the Parthenon and its connotations transcend time through rebirth in Nashville, Tennessee. Known as the “Athens of the South,” Nashville continues the culture displayed in Ancient Greece and symbolizes this through the city’s scale replication of the Parthenon within Centennial Park. In the first century A.D., Plutarch wrote Greek history so that the Greeks could recall the history that was gradually fading from their memorie...

Cambridge University Press eBooks, 2010

So many books about the Parthenon have appeared in recent years that it is reasonable to ask whether the appearance of yet another is helpful. Iconic the building may be-and the editor of these essays, Jenifer Neils, whose knowledge of the building and its ornament is second to none, makes a good case for the use of that loaded term-but do we really need at this point in the history of Parthenon Studies another series of essays on the structure? The answer is predictable: yes, and no. No, if little or nothing is added to what is already published, and yes, if new evidence is brought to bear, or new theories, or new methods of enquiry and analytical techniques. Moreover, at a moment when the restoration work of Manolis Korres and his team has yielded so much new information, and the new museum at the foot of the Acropolis is now open, it can fairly be argued that another account of the building is timely. The contributors are all seasoned authorities. The contents of the book are as follows:

Literature review on the Parthenon Frieze. Term paper for Dr. Hector Williams' CLST 501: Topography and Monuments of Ancient Athens, a graduate seminar held in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies (CNERS) at UBC.

STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF ART 49, D. Buitron-Oliver (ed.), The Interpretation of Architectural Sculpture in Greece and Rome, 1997

American Journal of Archaeology, 1996

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Greek Art in Context Archaeological and Art Historical Perspectives, edited by Diana Rodríguez Pérez, 2017

2004

2020

This was the final assignment for the course CLSS 305: Greek Civilization at Siena College in Loudonville, New York, Spring Semester 2020.

Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 55/56: 156-173