[mojito]

Review of the new book "The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of the World’s Most Iconic Building and the People Who Made It," by Joan Breton Connelly.

Recommended for Greek or Classical history buffs.

[mojito]

Ping.

[Cicero]

Interesting. And I think rather persuasive.

We just need a couple of hundred more years for classical scholars to talk it over and weigh in on it—assuming that any classical scholars are left after these dismal times of repeated attacks on the Western tradition.

[Sherman Logan]

Thanks, most interesting article!

For those who don’t know, there’s a full-scale replica of the Parthenon in Nashville. Amazing sight. Somehow I didn’t realize it was so big.

[KC Burke]

I just finished Holland’s “Persian Fire”, a study of that era where the older temples on the Acropolis were destroyed by the Persian burning of Athens and leading up to just before the building of the Acropolis with the significance highly covered in the last chapter.

For those that are interested, I rate Holland’s book right at the top of those I have read in the last few years. It puts into context the 300, the Xerxes invasion in general and the Spartan / Athenian interplay that later caused them both to loose power after the Peloponnesian War, a period I have read a number of books about in the past.

If you want to understand how the Persian Empire and the Greeks were at odds, came to war and all the whole era was significant, that is a great source.

[houeto]

[Constitution Day]

Bump for later

[SparkyBass]

“The Parthenon Code” is another take on it by Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr. Interesting interpretation in light of Scripture.

[Billthedrill]

Great stuff, and thanks for posting. BTT

[shibumi]

"...something darker, more primitive: a representation of the critical moment in an ancient story of a king at war, a human sacrifice, and a goddess’s demand for virgin blood?"

Kewl, eh?

But is such a thing even possible?

(Yes, it is!)