Where Is the Parthenon? (Where Is?)

by Roberta Edwards (Author) John Hinderliter (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: Where Is?
"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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Roberta Edwards
Roberta Edwards lives in New York, New York. Ken Call lives in Northbrook, Illinois.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780448488899
Lexile Measure
860
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication date
January 19, 2016
Series
Where Is?
BISAC categories
JNF038060 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | Europe
JNF005000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Architecture
JNF025020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Ancient
Library of Congress categories
Antiquities
Buildings, structures, etc
JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / Europ
JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Ancient
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Architecture
Athens (Greece)
Parthenon (Athens, Greece)

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