The Material
PENTELIC MARBLE
The foundation of Western civilization
is not an idea.
It is a material.
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The foundation of Western civilization
is not an idea.
It is a material.
The Greek word for marble means "the stone that shines."
The material is still changing.
It has always been changing.
This is not a historical artifact. It is a living material.
The golden ratio is called phi
after Phidias —
the sculptor who made
the gods visible
in this stone.
Twenty-five centuries ago, Pericles chose a material
that would make democracy permanent.
The marble held.
Today, when the Acropolis requires restoration,
there is only one source.
This is not heritage as metaphor.
It is continuity.
Greece is my intellectual home.
He could have sourced stone from anywhere.
For forty years, he returned to Penteli.
In 1877, our family reopened
the ancient quarries.
We remain the sole producers
of Pentelic marble.
of the material that built civilization.