Hurwit: Athena was known in many guises ... the free adult male citizens of Athens). Every monument, every element of the Periclean building program had to be voted upon by the Ekklesia, so ...

what largely constitutes the ‘significance’ of a monument in modern parlance — are not really at the root of what attracts most of us to the vestiges of the past. Indeed, in Athena’s experience, we ...