Title:
Plunder With Intent
Series: N/A
Author: Joanna D'Este Clark
Genre: Historical, Fiction.
Publisher: Ember Press
Published: 7th Nov 2017
5th Century BC, AthensHumble sculptor, Nikodimos, toils away in his workshop to create a sumptuous marble masterpiece of Athena Parthenos. His beautiful, noble creation is destined to be housed in the Parthenon. Nikodimos has no reason to suspect that it will not remain in its rightful home forever...19th Century AD, AthensLord Quimby, rich, powerful and greedy, is enchanted by the wealth of the Parthenon. Unconcerned by the locals' distress, Lord Quimby plunders the Parthenon of her finest artefacts. His twelve-year-old nephew, Maximilian, helplessly watches his Uncle's savage devastation of the treasure as it is shipped off to England, never to be seen again on Greek soil.Present DayYoung Cambridge student Max Perceval unearths the horror of his late ancestor's murky deeds and realises all is not what it seems in the Museum of Classical Antiquities. In order to locate the treasured marble, and right the wrongs of the past, Max must take matters into his own hands and confront the ghosts of the Quimby dynasty.
Based on a True
Story
The Parthenon
Marbles are a collection of Classical Greek marble sculptures that form part of
the Parthenon temple in Athens, built nearly 2,500 years ago. They are
considered amongst the finest examples of Greek art. In the early 19th century however, the British ambassador
to the Ottoman Empire removed about half of the remaining sculptures from the
Parthenon. They were first exhibited in 1807 in London before they went on show
at the British Museum in 1817. Ever since the sculptures have been on display
to the public in the British Museum. However, since the early 1830s, Greek
governments have argued for the return of all the Parthenon sculptures to
Athens and this debate is still ongoing today.
Joanna D’Este Clark fell in love with the
classical world and all-things-Greek while studying architecture and history of
art at a Canadian university. For the last ten years she has been a strong
supporter of the BCRPM (British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon
Marbles to Greece). She is a member of Marbles Re-United, and in 2016 was
invited to speak about her exciting new work at the Acropolis Museum in Athens.
Joanna lives in
London although she dreams of spending a lot more time in Greece. Plunder with Intent is inspired by her passion
to see the Parthenon Marbles finally come home.
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