The Acropolis in the age of Pericles /

The Acropolis in the age of Pericles /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hurwit, Jeffrey M., 1949-
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Description:	xxvi, 304 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Monuments -- Conservation and restoration -- Greece -- Athens. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Athens. Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) Monuments -- Conservation and restoration. Acropolis (Athens, Greece) Athens (Greece) -- Antiquities. Greece -- Athens. Greece -- Athens -- Acropolis.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5534578

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Other uniform titles:	Newton, Adam D. Hurwit, Jeffrey M., 1949- Athenian Acropolis.
ISBN:	0521820405 0521527406 (pb.)
Notes:	Abridged, rev., updated, and reorganized version of the author's The Athenian Acropolis: history, mythology, and archaeology from the Neolitihic era to the present, published in 1999. On CD-ROM: Images by Jeffrey M. Hurwit ; CD-ROM by Adam D. Newton. Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-295) and index.

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