Length: 38mins
Gorgeous Lives – Professor Joan Breton Connelly The Parthenon Enigma: A Journey Into Legend
We have decided that Professor Connelly has it all: she couldn’t be smarter or prettier and she spends two thirds of the year swanning about New York and infecting young minds with her love of all things Ancient Greek and the other third on the trail of Cleopatra on a small Cypriot island. And while doing so, she has come up with a revolutionary new interpretation of one of the world’s most iconic buildings, The Parthenon, based on a lost play by Euripides found in the wrappings of an Egyptian mummy – how cool is that! Do you have what it takes to be an Athenian?
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