

The Parthenon
Author: Mary Beard
Narrator: Joan Walker
Unabridged: 5 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 12/24/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Architecture, History, Ancient History
Includes:
Bonus Material
Synopsis
At once an entrancing cultural history and a congenial guide for tourists, armchair travelers, and amateur archaeologists alike, this book conducts listeners through the storied past and towering presence of the most famous building in the world. The classicist and historian Mary Beard takes us back to the fifth century BC to consider the Parthenon in its original guise—as the flagship temple of imperial Athens, housing an enormous gold and ivory statue of the city's patron goddess attended by an enigmatic assembly of sculptures. Just as fascinating is the monument's far longer life as cathedral church of Our Lady of Athens, as "the finest mosque in the world," and, finally, as an inspirational ruin and icon.