Posted on 06/19/2009 11:14:41 AM PDT by eleni121
That is true of the Turks who occupied Greece for 400 plus years. Turks have not changed BTW although they are trying a new strategy these days...
Worst damage? The Parthenon was bombed to smithereens when a Venetian bomb (1687) fell in it exploding the ammo dump it was under the turks. Turks stored their ammo right in the middle of the temple.
Following their independence from Muslim slavery the Greeks as a whole did more than humanly possible to protect their patrimony so much of which was destroyed and damaged and sold during their enslavement. No - the British did nothing to preserve these marvels—in fact, their attitude today speaks volumes about their guilt.
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No, your wallet as well as your life is disposable once the contents have been emptied for his use. He spends so fast, nobody could carve anything in stone that he does, as what he touches is all vaporized in minutes.
Besides, how funny the statue would look with two faces...
Santorini is great-—Crete - for the beaches, the Minoan Greek ruins, wonderful hospitality in people-—
Best beaches - everywhere.
Try and visit the villages where normal Greeks live. They are also in the suburbs of Athens—not downtown.
Stay away from tourist traps——September is perfect!
We are going in July (2 days in Athens for the museum mainly) but going to the North - Thessaloniki and Halkidiki.
I'm sure others will have more advice
A robber can take very good care of what he steals—doesn’t make it right. Especially in light of the fact that the people who owned them were a subjugated population at the time. Very tacky and despicable on the part of the Brits.
As for taking “good care” of them - not really. The Brits in fact have been the worst of caretakers. Over and over again. Wiki has a suprisingly good overview of this damage too-— see “damage - “British Museum” and “elgin”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/1999/nov/12/helenasmith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Marbles#cite_note-guardian-32
British museums will be dull places if they are compelled to return the pillaging of the past several centuries. It should be noted, however, that those pillaged items have been safer in Britain than they would have been in their original settings.
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Want to see the Acropolis? Go to Nashville, Tn.
No don’t think so. Lots of art all over the world. Little late to start returning it to point of origin. Be thankful the British Museum did such a wonderful job of preserving them.
Much of the art of Classical and Hellenistic Greece was destroyed by the Greeks themselves as pagan when they converted to Christianity. Sad but true.
If you get a chance, go to Sandy Fingered Pylos, of Homer fame, Methoni and Koroni at the very bottom of Greece and go by way of Olympia, then on the way back to Athens, go up the east coast of the Peloponnesus and visit Gythion, Monemvasia, Agios Petros, Naphlion and Mycene. And do see and perhaps even stay in some of the villages if you can.
September and May are the best months!
“Anyone going this year?”
One or more of us will be going down, probably after the 15th of September.
“I’ll be in Santorini for my honeymoon in September.”
Santorini is great! Where are you staying (btw, September is a great time to be there)?
The Nashville Parthenon has a set of replicas of the Elgin marbles inside, along with a modern version of the gigantic statue of Athena.
The Mill Houses. We must have looked at 50 different places, but this one is a 5 minute walk from downtown Thira and had the best reviews.
Make sure you get to Oia for the sunsets on the island and to Akirotiri which is the Greek Pompey (much, much older). There are all sorts of quiet beaches away from Fira, like out at Agia Paraskevi. Take a tour of one of the vineyards. The vines are grown in depressions in the ground in the shape of a nest because the winds on the island would blow the grapes away if the vines were set up in the regular fashion.
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Lord Elgin acted as a savage vandal -— grabbing what is not his from those who the Marbles do not belong to.
And...on a more banal note: enjoy the tomatoes on Santorini. I never had better....
Apparently the volcanic soil grow the best in the world.
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