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THEODORE, VRETTOS The Elgin Affair: The Abduction of Antiquity's Greatest Treasures and the Passions it Aroused
Arcade Publishing 2-Nov-98 1559704578 / 9781559704571 N Paperback
From Library Journal&newline;Few arts controversies have inflamed passions as long as have Lord Elgin's removal of the sculptures and friezes from the Parthenon. The treatment of the Elgin Marbles evoked strong feelings by celebrities from Lord Byron to Melina Mercouri. In this work, Vrettos for the third time undertakes to tell how the ancient sculptures found their way from Athens to the British Museum. He first took up the story with a nonfiction account (A Shadow of Magnitude, LJ 10/15/74) and fictionalized it eight years later (Lord Elgin's Lady, LJ 5/1/82). His new work reads much like a novel, with detailed descriptions of protagonists' attire and weather conditions. In fact, it is a re-serving of his earlier nonfiction effort; it makes a fine, light introduction to the subject but must defer to William St. Clair's Lord Elgin and the Marbles (1967) as the definitive scholarly treatment. Recommended for general readers and public libraries.?Paul Burnam, Ohio Wesleyan Univ. Libs., Delaware&newline;Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. &newline;&newline;The New York Times Book Review, Nigel Nicolson &newline;Vrettos, an American writer, is an excellent anecdotist. He quotes enough from original documents to confirm their authenticity and paraphrases the rest scintillatingly. He gives us a detailed account of the dismantling and transport of the sculptures, but the main narrative concerns Elgin himself, his embassy to Constantinople, his happy (later disastrous) marriage and his struggles to win acceptance and financial compensation for his loot. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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