Pergamon: The Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar, Volume 1 by Renee Dreyfus

Pergamon: The Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar, Volume 1

Renee Dreyfus

120 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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Pergamon was an ancient royal capital in what is now Turkey. To proclaim the city's importance, its Hellenistic kings built a Great Altar--a massive stone podium about one hundred feet long and thirty-five feet high. The story of Telephos, the myt...

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