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This book is an abridged and revised edition of the author's monumental The Athenian Acropolis: History, Mythology and Archaeology from the Neolithic Era to the Present. It focuses specifically on the development of the Acropolis in the fifth century BC and the building program initiated by Pericles. Placing the century-long development within its historical and cultural contexts, Jeffrey Hurwit explores the physical nature of the Acropolis itself, the character of the goddess Athena, and how the building program exploits and reveals the Acropolis's own venerable history. He also offers an interpretation of the thematic unity that links the many structures of the Periclean Acropolis. Incorporating the latest discoveries and research on individual monuments of the Acropolis, this edition is illustrated with 145 halftones as well as a CD-ROM including 180 colour images of the monuments of the Acropolis.
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This excellent abridged, revised, and updated version of Hurwit's The Athenian Acropolis: History, Mythology, and Archaeology from the Neolithic Era to the Present (CH, Jul'99) strips away several chapters devoted to the acropolis' pre- and post-Classical (i.e., 5th century BCE) history. As a result, Hurwit (art history, Univ. of Oregon) focuses on its best known phase under the Athenian leader Pericles, and hones the argument he set out in 1999: that the acropolis is above all "a landscape of memory" whereby the entire site and its building program refer not only to contemporary Athenian greatness, but to a glorious past. In spite of what may seem their haphazard arrangement, the acropolis monuments are carefully woven together as an interconnected, self-referential whole. In contrast to its lengthier predecessor, this edition includes a glossary of terms as well as an attractively produced CD-ROM of 180 color images taken by the author himself (which, alongside 144 black-and-white illustrations, are referenced in the text by CD number). Hurwit has a knack for constructing engaging, accessible scholarship, assuring his work a wide readership. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. B. A. Ault University at Buffalo, SUNY
Table of Contents
| 1 The rock and the goddess |
| 2 Landscape of memory: the past on the classical acropolis |
| 3 Pericles, Athens, and the building program |
| 4 The Parthenon |
| 5 The Propylaia |
| 6 The Erechtheion (the classical temple of Athena Polias) |
| 7 The sanctuary of Athena Nike |
| 8 The rest of the program |
| 9 Conclusion: the Periclean Acropolis as a whole |
