Manolis Korres, Architect, archaeologist, professor NTUA
MELISSA Publishing House
128 pages, black and white photographs and 41 drawings, hardback, 25x33 cm., english
The first part of the book presents, in the form of 22 full-page drawings, the story of a Doric column capital (weighing 12 tons) hewed from the quarry on Mount Pentelicon and transported to the Parthenon. The second part presents the ancient Pentelic marble quarries, the natural landscape from Pentelikon to Athens as it would have appeared in antiquity, as well as the transpotation methods of the time.