false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255803724m/2239431.jpg 2239431 3 <p>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&#8217; complex history through the dynamic narratives of Mary Nisbet, the wife of the Earl of Elgin, the British ambassador to Constantinople, and Aspasia, the mistress of Pericles, the most powerful man in Athens during that city&#8217;s Golden Age. <br><br>At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the twenty-one-year-old newlywed, 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&#8217;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 Pericles at the center of vehement opposition to his vision of building the most exquisite monuments the world had ever seen. <br><br>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&#8217;s most influential and fascinating women.</p> 2245279 book 17 6 2008 Stealing Athena: A Novel total:193|5:17|4:76|3:64|2:26|1:10| 193 643 438 79 2239431 0385519710 9780385519717 188 78 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255803724m/2239431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2239431.Stealing_Athena 4 1 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 22:21:12 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 22:21:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2239431 0385519710 9780385519717 188 78 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255803724m/2239431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2239431.Stealing_Athena 2 1 false Thu Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 14:49:57 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 12:13:02 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 2239431 0385519710 9780385519717 188 78 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255803724m/2239431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2239431.Stealing_Athena 3 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 28 10:38:12 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 10:38:35 -0700 2009 stole the marbles, and goes back and forth between their time on the Continent and ancient Greece, when t...more...]]> 2239431 0385519710 9780385519717 188 78 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255803724m/2239431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2239431.Stealing_Athena 2 1 false Wed Dec 17 05:46:33 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 05:47:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2239431 0385519710 9780385519717 188 78 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255803724m/2239431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2239431.Stealing_Athena 4 2 false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 19:11:26 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 19:21:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6431921 0767926188 9780767926188 4 1 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255803719m/6431921.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6431921-stealing-athena 3 0 false Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 13:56:26 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 19:26:20 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 2239431 0385519710 9780385519717 188 78 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255803724m/2239431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2239431.Stealing_Athena 4 1 false Thu Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 06:38:50 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 06:40:11 -0700 2008 One of the better historical...more...]]> 2239431 0385519710 9780385519717 188 78 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255803724m/2239431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2239431.Stealing_Athena 3 1 false Wed Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 15:03:27 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 16:25:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2239431 0385519710 9780385519717 188 78 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255803724m/2239431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2239431.Stealing_Athena 0 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 15 12:33:05 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 12:33:05 -0800 2009 We are the school of Hellas.

This line, translated as I remember it, rings out to us from antiquity. It was spoken by Pericles in his famous oration at the funeral of Athens' dead, killed in the first year of the Peloponnesian War with Sparta.

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Mary Nesbit convinces her father to allow her to marry Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, because she desires t...more...]]> 2239431 0385519710 9780385519717 188 78 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255803724m/2239431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2239431.Stealing_Athena 5 0 false Wed May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 14:35:02 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 15:33:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2239431