Temple On A Hill Author:Anne Rockwell The Parthenon is one of the most familiar buildings in the world. — This is the story of the building of the Parthenon. But it is also the story of Greece at the time. And it is a book of architecture--of the theory behind the design of the Parthenon. Finally it is a book about people and about special men: Pericles, whose vision built the Pa... more »rthenon; Themistocles, the warrior; Phidias, the sculptor, and others who made the Golden Age of Greece what it was.« less
I found this book for my daughter during her Greek and Roman Gods period. She loved the drawings showing how it was built, and it inspired her, for a while, to become an architect.