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How to View the Parthenon through the Camera Obscura of the Tortoise

How to View the Parthenon through the Camera Obscura of the Tortoise

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How to View the Parthenon through the Camera Obscura of the Tortoise

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How to View the Parthenon through the Camera Obscura of the Tortoise

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New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

Journal title

Review of Middle East studies (Tucson, Ariz.), 2017-08, Vol.51 (2), p.214-220

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English

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New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

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Contents

Visiting ruins, I enjoy the texture of the weathered stones. The wide space, colored in spring by wildflowers. Open space and vistas, the heady smell of grasses drying in the hot sun. Birds sing as they have since Plato's cicadas. Once, alone near the ruins, I heard a strange rhythmic clicking in the grass: two tortoises making love. The ruins that...

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How to View the Parthenon through the Camera Obscura of the Tortoise

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1959192244

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1959192244

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ISSN

2151-3481

E-ISSN

2329-3225

DOI

10.1017/rms.2017.109

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