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2023
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Luxury and power: Persia to Greece
The accompanying book to the British Museum exhibition Luxury and power: Persia to Greece. Luxurious objects are celebrated for their exoticism, rarity and style, but also disparaged as indulgent, extravagant and corrupt. The ancient origins of these attitudes emerged at the boundary between the imperial Persian and democratic Athenian Greek...Fraser, James
power, Luxury, Persia, and Ancient Greece
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2012
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Acropolis Restored
Published to mark the completion of a 35-year long study and restoration of the magnificent buildings on the Athens Acropolis. The individual contributors tell the story for an English reading audience of the dedicated and detailed efforts to understand the work of previous generations on the Acropolis and then to...Bouras, Charalambos ; Ioannidou, Maria ; Jenkins, Ian
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1989