The Elgin Affair: The Abduction of Antiquity's Greatest Treasures and the Passions It Aroused by Theodore Vrettos

The Elgin Affair: The Abduction of Antiquity's Greatest Treasures and the Passions It Aroused

Theodore Vrettos

238 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Every year, millions visit London's British Museum to gaze upon the breathtaking Greek statues that were the jewels of the Parthenon. What they don't know is that behind the cold beauty of the Elgin Marbles (named for the nineteenth-century Englis...

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