Theodore Vrettos: 2 books
Alexandria
City of the Western Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Alexandria was the greatest cultural capital of the ancient world. Accomplished classicist and author Theodore Vrettos now tells its story for the first time in a single volume. His enchanting blend of literary and scholarly qualities makes stories that played out among architectural wonders of the...
The Elgin Affair
The True Story of the Greatest Theft in History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
A New York Times Notable Book chronicling the nineteenth-century scandal of the Elgin Marbles, their removal from the Parthenon, and Lord Elgin’s harrowing fate.
As the Napoleonic Wars raged in the first years of the nineteenth-century, Scottish diplomat Lord Elgin committed one of the most...