FROM PENTELICON TO THE PARTHENON

(. . .) The fist part of this book constitutes a freely written account reconstructing the process whereby an eleven tonne Doric column capital was quarried and transported to Athens relating its adventures as they interweave themselves with those of the people and the city in general. The second part contains analytical scientific documentation of the first part, and constitutes the most extensive archaeological study on the Pentelicon quarries yet published (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΠΡΟΛΟΓΟ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ) PROLOGUE NARRATIVE AND PICTORIAL RECONSTRUCTION EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES