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The Parthenon (Wonders of the World)
Mary Beard
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| #179376 in Books | Mary Beard | 2010-06-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.08 x.70 x4.54l,.47 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | The Parthenon||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A Narrow Escape|By M. A Newman|There is an old saying that one kills the thing one loves. Given the treatment meted out to some of the world's treasures, this certainly must have a grain of truth. Of course it is rare for humanity to recognize a world treasure during it's initial creation. The Mona Lisa was not the painting that it is now until the 19th century. This book|About the Author|Mary Beard has a Chair of Classics at Cambridge and is a Fellow of Newnham College. She is classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement and author of the blog “A Don’s Life.” She is also a winner of the 2008 Wolfson
Praise for the previous edition:
"Wry and imaginative, this gem of a book deconstructs the most famous building in Western history."–Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic
"In her brief but compendious volume [Beard] says that the more we find out about this mysterious structure, the less we know. Her book is especially valuable because it is up to date on the restoration the Parthenon has been undergoing since 1986."–Gary Wills, New York Rev...
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