This quotation from Dorothy King is to be found in a review of her book The Elgin Marbles in The Observer today. I can't claim credit for finding it; it was Explorator doing his usual Sunday service for Classicists and others.
The book looks useful for teaching Greek sculpture. The reviewer, David Smith, calls the style 'breezy and informal' and writes:
The main narrative is a winding history of the Parthenon and the outcrop on which it sits, the Acropolis in Athens. Ploughing through nearly 2,500 years of Persians, Romans, Christians, Byzantines, Ottomans, Anglo-French and Anglo-Greek squabbles is exhausting work. King is equally unstinting in her 60-page description and interpretation of the Parthenon's metopes, pediments and frieze.The book is published by Hutchinson at £18.99 and has 352 pages.
