PARTHENON MARBLES. SHOULD THEY RETURN TO GREECE?
Athens brand new archaeological museum is ready. A huge modern building is at last up to host the Hellenic antiquities. there is an empty room though waiting for the British government and British museum to decide at last to return the Parthenon marbles back to Hellas! Hellenic history belongs to the whole world...its not only ours....but at least let Hellenes keep the stones....
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Imagine if Egypt asked for everything back we took from them; and every other country we plundered wanted their artefacts back where would we be? Once the ball starts rolling it never stops. I agree with one thing when the artefact is human remains, they should be repatriated.
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@ alan, yes anything plundered should be returned if the country wishes to have them back.
Many countries are willing to loan or exchange artifacts to other countries.
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Dear Bad Kitteh,
You’ll be having our British ancestors doing cartwheels in their coffins, and museum curators having nervous breakdowns and jumping off window sills!!!!
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Simple historical facts :
During the turkish occupation in Hellas, british ambassador to the Sublime Porte of Constantinople(1799), Thomas Bruce (aka Elgin), after a deal with the pasha governor of Athina (and under the cover of a said "restoration") obtained a "firman", an official permission to remove the sculptures of Parthenon.
The looting took place from 1801 to 1804. He just brought them to London then.
Later (1816), and after many negotiations, the aforementioned (lord..) Elgin sold the "marbles" to the
british government ...like a decent pirate should act......................................................................
It is MORE THAN OBVIOUS that the Parthenon marbles belong to the country that created them trough
the centuries of its civilization as a significant part of its cultural and historical heritage......
PS
For years, the Duveen Gallery of the British Museum where these antiquities are exposed
IS RENTING its spaces at exorbitant prices for private high society parties in them.......................
(This is very well known in Greece, and it is considered as a major scandal there)
What else can anyone say ?
I'll simply quote Lord Byron's verses :
"Dull is the eye that will not weep to see
Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed
By British hands, which it had best behoved
To guard those relics ne’er to be restored.
Curst be the hour when from their isle they roved,
And once again thy hapless bosom gored,
And snatch'd thy shrinking gods to northern climes abhorred!
—"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
I agree, you should be able to have them in your Greek Museum. They do not belong in an English museum, although I have seen them myself only because they are here and that is a great privilege.
I hope the British Museum agrees to send them back to Greece.
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