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1) Parthenon
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
34 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Athens, Greece, is best known for the Parthenon, the ruins of an ancient temple completed in 438 BC to honor the goddess Athena. But what many people don't know is that it only served as a temple for a couple hundred years. It then became a church, then a mosque, and by the end of the 1600s served as a storehouse for munitions. When an enemy army fired hundreds of cannon balls at the Acropolis, one directly hit the Parthenon. Much of the sculpture...