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and the friezes are in the British Museum in London and known as the Elgin mar-
bles.
- There are a number of ancient, miniature replicas and a description by Pausanias
(1. 24). Copyright permission cannot be obtained to reproduce the most recent full-
scale reconstruction in the Parthenon at Nashville. - For the Parthenon and its sculpture, see John Travlos, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient
Athens (New York: Praeger, 1971), entry for "Parthenon"; John Boardman and D. Finn,
The Parthenon and Its Sculptures (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985); Ian Jenkins,
The Parthenon Frieze (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994); Martin Robinson and
Alison Frantz, The Parthenon Frieze (New York: Phaidon), distinguished by Frantz's
photography; Susan Woodford, The Parthenon (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1981), brief and basic; John Boardman, Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period (Lon-
don: Thames and Hudson, 1955), Chapter 10, "The Parthenon," pp. 96-145, includes
diagrams, reconstructions, and photographs in his useful, short account; Martin
Robinson, A Shorter History of Greek Art (New York: Cambridge University Press,
1981), pp. 90-102, for the Parthenon, the best discussion, distilled from the author's
A History of Greek Art, 2 vols. (1975), Chapter 5, pp. 292-322. - Joan B. Connelly, "Parthenon and Parthenoi: A Mythical Interpretation of the
Parthenon Frieze," American Journal of Archaeology 100 (1996), pp. 53-58. Evelyn B.
Harrison convincingly champions the traditional view that the Panathenaia is being
depicted by a meticulous identification of figures and action and makes us very much
aware of how the feeling and mood are in no sense tragic or even highly dramatic.
See Evelyn B. Harrison, "The Web of History: A Conservative Reading of the
Parthenon Frieze," in Jenifer Neils, éd., Worshipping Athena: Panathenaia & Parthenon
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996) pp. 198-214; also included in the Neils
volume is "Women in the Panathenaic and Other Festivals" by Mary R. Lefkowitz. - Elisabeth Wayland Barber, Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years (New York: W. W.
Norton, 1994), p. 242.