MAL Book Club: "Stealing Athena"

Please join Marlene Boas and Jan Pini for the next meeting of the MAL Art and Artists Book Club! Come even if you haven't read the book! 

Note the new time of 2:00 for this month!

We will meet to discuss "Stealing Athena" by Karen Essex. 

Feel free to read the book and add to the discussion. And bring friends and snacks! A voluntary donation of $5 is requested.

Here's Amazon's synopsis:

For two hundred years, the Elgin Marbles or Parthenon Sculptures have stood in the British Museum at the center of a global debate. In Stealing Athena, Karen Essex tells their story through two remarkable women divided by centuries but united by ambition.

At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, young Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin, uses charm and daring in Constantinople on the Sultan himself to help secure permission for her husband’s goal strip the Parthenon of its treasures.

Two thousand years earlier, Aspasia, philosopher, courtesan, and partner to Athens’s most powerful man, Pericles, plays a key role as the city builds glorious monuments destined to change history.

Rich with romance, intrigue, scandal, mythology, and high stakes, Stealing Athena brings two hidden women behind history’s headlines brilliantly to life.