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Stealing Athena
by Karen Essex
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- 2009
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- 452 PAGES
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Essex (Leonardo's Swans) chronicles the convoluted fate of the Elgin Marbles -- and their journey from the Parthenon to the British Museum -- through the stories of two powerful women: Mary Nisbet, wife of the Earl of Elgin, the British ambassador to Constantinople; and Aspasia, mistress of Pericles, renowned statesman, general and orator in in classical Athens.
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