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...de Dinteville on the left and Georges de Selve on the right, both in their twenties at the time. They stand above a cosmati marble floor – modelled on the one at Westminster Abbey – in front of a table laden with musical and scientific instruments. The celestial and terrestrial globes, mathematics text, lute, quadrant, and other objects depicted in vividly realistic...

...De La Warr Pavilion and Highpoint One are good examples. Conversely, there is more than a handful of buildings that have achieved iconic status for all the wrong reasons: buildings which are so widely loathed that they have come to symbolise what the public at large dislike about Modernist architecture: for years, Trellick Tower held this dubious honour. Not far behind...

...Type ‘Xenophon’ into the search box in the top-right corner of the screen. You’ll be given a full list of all the treatises by Xenophon currently held, in both Greek and English. One of these is Memorabilia, from which you read a short extract earlier. You also learned more about Xenophon himself in Section 1.5. In the list on Perseus, click on the English...