In this episode, we are joined by Katie Petrole, Director of Education at the Nashville Parthenon and a former Steinmetz Family Foundation Museum Fellow at Corinth Excavations in Ancient Corinth, Greece.
Join us, as Katie brings the Parthenon to life through a discussion of its to-scale replica in Nashville, guiding us through how an ancient Greek might have experienced the space and the ways in which the Nashville Parthenon can serve as an effective resource for thinking about the Greek world more broadly.
Want to learn more about the Nashville Parthenon? Read this article by Katie Petrole:
Behold: the Nashville Parthenon!
Katie at Mosaic Craft and Drafts, an adult education program she created about mosaic art and mosaic hops
Katie presenting about mosaics at Kidsville at the Parthenon, 2019
Katie talking all things olive oil with an artifact (mortar, C-1931-556) at Corinth Excavations, 2017
Katie on International Museum Day at Corinth Excavations, 2015
Hosting an International Archaeology Day station at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, 2018
Katie’s dog, Kore, from archaeological site in Corinth, Greece, to pet passport to Nashville, Tennessee
Close-up of Athena’s lashes
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Additional Resources for the Nashville Parthenon and Polychromy
Bell, Madeline, director. Athena: The Goddess Awakens. Athena Project, 1991. (Available via Parthenon Museum Store, +01-615-862-8431)
Kreyling, Christine, et al. Classical Nashville: Athens of the South. Vanderbilt University Press, 1996.
“Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, 1897.” Internet Archive.
Bond, Sarah. “Why We Need to Start Seeing the Classical World in Color.” Hyperallergic. 7 June 2017.
Taylor, Margaret. “The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture.” The New Yorker. 22 Oct. 2018.
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