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Goddess in Progress: Athena Parthenos in Nashville
October 22, 2019 @ 5:00 pm EDT
1009 E South Campus Drive
Tucson, AZ 85721 United States
Sponsored by: Archaeological Institute of America
AIA Society: Tucson
Lecturer: Alan LeQuire
Alan LeQuire sculpted and built the world’s only full-scale re-creation of the lost Athena Parthenos by Phidias. In this lecture LeQuire explains the research, the controversial decisions he made, and the construction process.
Short bibliography and/or website on lecture topic (for lay reader):
https://www.nashville.gov/Parks-and-Recreation/Parthenon/Athena.aspx
Coulson Lecture
Co-sponsored by the Departments of History and of Classics and Religious Studies, and the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona
A reception will accompany the lecture
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