The Parthenon by Mary Beard

5 hours, 16 minutes first pub 2002 (editions) user-added

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
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Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf it met with astonishment, rapture, poetry, even tears--and, always, recognition. Twenty-five hundred years ...

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