She’s 42 feet of power, poise, and gold-leafed grandeur, and she calls Nashville home. Meet our very own Athena Parthenos. Standing tall in the city’s full-scale Parthenon, she’s more than a sculpture ...
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We can only imagine how glorious the Parthenon must have appeared in the middle of the fifth century B.C., with worshippers gathered in its towering central sanctuary paying tribute to a 40-foot, gold ...
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A number of readers have written in about my August 13 column, “Questioning Virginity.” All have taken issue with my saying that the Greek word parthenos, in the Septuagint’s translation of the Hebrew ...