{"product_id":"stealing-athena","title":"Stealing Athena","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eStealing Athena\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eKaren Essex\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780385519717\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDoubleday\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2008\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edtion\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e464\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThe 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' 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's Golden Age. 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'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. 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's most influential and fascinating women.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Doubleday","offers":[{"title":"Stealing Athena | Karen Essex | Hardcover | 9780385519717 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks B 1778981","offer_id":49814963126424,"sku":"1778981","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/5170qnlV7VL.jpg?v=1788542583","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/stealing-athena","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}