Where is the Parthenon? / by Roberta Edwards ; illustrated by John Hinderliter.
Collection : Where is...?Éditeur : New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2016]Description : 108 pages : illustrations, carte en couleur ; 20 cmType de contenu :- texte
- sans médiation
- volume
- 9780448488899
- 726/.120809385 23
- NA281 .E39 2016
Type de document | Bibliothèque propriétaire | Localisation | Cote | Statut | Date d'échéance | Code-barres | Reservations d'exemplaire | |
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Monographie | École du Havre-Jeunesse | Livre en anglais | ANG 726 EDWA (Parcourir l'étagère(Ouvre ci-dessous)) | Disponible | 009008995 |
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"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 was destroyed, three hundred people died, and the site fell into ruin. Today, visitors continue to flock to this world famous landmark, which has become a symbol for Ancient Greece, democracy, and modern civilization"--
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