The Parthenon at Athens, Greece
and
at Nashville, Tennessee

Excerpts
from
The Parthenon of Pericles
and Its
Reproduction in America
Illustrated

By
Benjamin Franklin Wilson, III
Director of the Parthenon

PARTHENON PRESS
NASHVILLE

THE PARTHENON AT ATHENS, GREECE
And
AT NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
(Excerpts from THE PARTHENON OF PERICLES AND
ITS REPRODUCTION IN AMERICA)
Copyright, MCMXLI
By Benjamin Franklin Wilson III

TO
THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS
1920-1941

R. M. Dudley M. T. Bryan Lee J. Loventhal W. R. Cole R. T. Creighton Chas. M. McCabe Percy Warner Rogers Caldwell J. P. W. Brown Edwin Warner C. A. Craig Jas. G. Stahlman Vernon Tupper Bascom F. Jones

Whose intelligent and untiring interest made possible the reproduction of the Parthenon at Nashville; in memory of those who are gone, and in appreciation of those who are living, this booklet is gratefully dedicated