Few if any would dispute the Parthenon's position as the most important monument in Western civilization. In its art and architecture, it is the ultimate expres

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

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

"A revolutionary new understanding of the West's most iconic building and the people who made it"--Jacket.

Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully in