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A Silly Book on the Parthenon

Thursday November 30, 2006
Irene Hahn, Ancient/Classical History forum cohost and Roman History Books and More blogger, responded in depth to an inquiry on the forum about The Parthenon Code: Mankind's History in Marble, by Robert Bowie Johnson Jr., on her blog. Her response includes the following:
"This all would be truly funny and shades of von Däniken, if it there weren't a very serious component to this."

"[T]he books may have well reached a gullible audience and is further contributing to the dumbing down of society. In fact, the sample chapters do have some class-room look. BMCR talks about 'a silly book with a pernicious message. It seeks to rob the ancient Greeks of their uniqueness, to taint their contribution to the formation of western culture, and to replace both with a fundamentalist cant that does no service to Genesis.'"
Read the rest of Irene's objections to the book at archaeology, religion, and delusions: the parthenon code or read the forum thread.

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