Phidias

Phidias is represented in the linked non-fiction through religion, belief and institutional authority, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and political ambition and government. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In non-fiction, Phidias is discussed in Mary Beard’s The Parthenon. Mary Beard’s The Parthenon approaches the subject through religion, belief and institutional authority, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and political ambition and government.