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Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf it met with astonishment, rapture, poetry, even tears-and, always, recognition. Twenty-five hundred years after it first rose above Athens, the Parthenon remains one of the wonders of the world, its beginnings and strange turns of fortune over millennia a perpetual source of curiosity, controversy, and intrigue.
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Primitive Athens as Described by Thucydides by Jane Ellen Harrison offers a fascinating exploration of ancient Athens, focusing on its early history and cultural development as interpreted through the lens of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. A leading classical scholar and pioneer in the study of ancient Greek religion, Harrison brings her deep knowledge and innovative methods to this work, combining literary analysis, archaeology, and...
3) Parthenon
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A detailed history of the Parthenon exploring its construction and restoration.
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Recreates the public buildings, temples, shops, and houses of ancient Athens and Rome, providing a window through which to look at the development of the cities and their architecture, and to discuss various aspects of daily life, including religion, food, drama, games, food, culture, and entertainment.
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"Athens, Greece, is best known for the Parthenon, the ruins of an ancient temple completed in 438 BC to honor the goddess Athena. But what many people don't know is that it only served as a temple for a couple hundred years. It then became a church, then a mosque, and by the end of the 1600s served as a storehouse for munitions. When an enemy army fired hundreds of cannon balls at the Acropolis, one directly hit the Parthenon. Much of the sculpture...
13) The Acropolis
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Discusses the history of the Acropolis, a large fortified hill in thecenter of Athens, and the uses to which it and the structures built upon ithave been put throughout the ages.
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