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Classical Nashville: Athens of the South Hardcover - 1996
by Christine M. Kreyling/ Wesley Paine/ Charles W. Warterfield/ Susan Ford Wiltshire
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- Title Classical Nashville: Athens of the South
- Author Christine M. Kreyling/ Wesley Paine/ Charles W. Warterfield/ Susan Ford Wiltshire
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vanderbilt Univ Pr, Nashville
- Date 1996
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0826512771
- ISBN 9780826512772 / 0826512771
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.33 x 0.68 in (23.57 x 16.08 x 1.73 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Tennessee
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Civilization - Classical, Nashville (Tenn.) - Civilization
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96012087
- Dewey Decimal Code 976.855
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From the rear cover
Illustrated with nearly a hundred archival and contemporary photographs, Classical Nashville shows how Nashville earned that appellation through its adoption of classical metaphors in several areas: its educational and literary history, from the first academies through the establishment of the Fugitive movement at Vanderbilt; the classicism of the city's public architecture, including its Capitol and legislative buildings; the evolution of neoclassicism in homes and private buildings; and the history and current state of the Parthenon, the ultimate symbol of classical Nashville, which houses the awe-inspiring 42-foot statue of Athena by sculptor Alan LeQuire. Nashville's classical identifications have always been forward-looking rather than antiquarian: ambitious, democratic, entrepreneurial, and culturally substantive. Classical Nashville celebrates the continuation of classical ideals in present-day Nashville, ideals that serve not as monuments to a lost past, but as sources of energy, creativity, and imagination for the future of a city.