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Why We’re Still Fighting Over Elgin’s Marbles
Books & the Arts / In A.E. Stallings’s Frieze Frame, the poet retells the many conflicts, political and cultural, the ...
An elevation of the entire Acropolis as seen from the west; while the Parthenon dominates the scene, it is nonetheless only part of a greater composition. ImageCourtesy of Wikimedia user Quibik ...
In the early years of Pericles' power he was constantly challenged for the leadership of Athens. One opponent, Thucydides (not the historian of the same name), a relative of the ostracised Cimon, ...
In 447 Pericles began the project he is most famous for: the building programme on the Acropolis. Through its great naval alliance the city controlled an empire - Pericles now insisted his countrymen ...
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