Article: Hurwit, Jeffrey M.: The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles.(Book Review)

Hurwit, Jeffrey M. The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 330 pp., $75.00, ISBN 0-521-82040-5 Publication Date: August 2004

Students of classical antiquity have long been influenced by Plutarch's account (in his writing on Pericles) describing the construction of the monuments and artwork on the Acropolis. According to Plutarch, around 445 BC Pericles decided to rebuild the monuments that the Persians had destroyed. The work was done quickly, largely under the direction of Pericles and Phidias. Jeffrey Hurwit, in The Acropolis in the Age of Pereiles, demonstrates that the work took longer than Plutarch suggested and that there ...

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