Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since t

Provides an overview of a classical monument interjected with the discoveries of modern scholarship.

Complementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly ‘the very symbol

While the sculpted Ionic frieze of the Parthenon with its galloping horsemen and classically portrayed gods is reproduced in every art history text and has been

“Wry and imaginative, this gem of a book deconstructs the most famous building in Western history.” —Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic “In her brief but co