FROM PENTELICON TO THE PARTHENON

128 pages

1 black and white photographs and 41 drawings

hardback, 25x33 cm.

The first part of the book presents, in the form of 22 full-page drawings, the story of a Doric column capital (weighing 12 tons) hewed from the quarry on Mount Pentelicon and transported to the Parthenon.

The second part presents the ancient Pentelic marble quarries, the natural landscape from Pentelikon to Athens as it would have appeared in antiquity, as well as the transpotation methods of the time.

Prologue 

Part I: Narrative and pictorial reconstruction 

Part II: Explanation of the plates

Appendix 1: Testimonies 

Appendix 2: The Quarry of the Nymphs on Paros

Table of  contents 

List of Figures 

Select Bibliography 

Indexes, Glossary, Greek pronunciation, etc.

Greek ISBN 9602040181