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Stealing Athena: A Novel

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Stealing Athena: A Novel

by Essex, Karen

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Doubleday, 6/17/2008 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Very Good. 1.2992 in x 9.4488 in x 6.1024 in. Marks on edge * Crease on cover*

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The author of the bestselling Leonardo's Swans traverses the centuries into the hearts of two extraordinary women to reveal the passions, ambitions, and controversies surrounding the Elgin Marbles.The Elgin Marbles have been displayed in the British Museum for nearly two hundred years, and for just as long they have been the center of a raging controversy. In Stealing Athena, Karen Essex chronicles the Marbles' amazing journey through the dynamic narratives of Mary Nisbet, wife of the Earl of Elgin, the British ambassador to Constantinople, and Aspasia, the mistress of Perikles, the most powerful man in Athens during that city's Golden Age.At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the twenty-one-year-old, newly wed Countess of Elgin, a Scottish heiress and celebrated beauty, enchanted the power brokers of the Ottoman Empire, using her charms to obtain their permission for her husband's audacious plan to deconstruct the Parthenon and bring its magnificent sculptures to England. Two millennia earlier, Aspasia, a female philosopher and courtesan, and a central figure in Athenian life, plied her wits, allure, and influence with equal determination, standing with Perikles at the center of vehement opposition to his vision of building the most exquisite monuments the world had ever seen.Rich in romance and intrigue, greed and glory, Stealing Athena is an enthralling work of historical fiction and a window into the intimate lives of some of history's most influential and fascinating women.

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Title
Stealing Athena: A Novel
Author
Essex, Karen
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Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
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ISBN 10
0385519710
ISBN 13
9780385519717
Publisher
Doubleday
Place of Publication
New York, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published
6/17/2008 12:00:01 A
Size
1.2992 in x 9.4488 in x 6.1024 i
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