[eleni121]

Historic occasion that demands restitution.

[a fool in paradise]

Lost my marbles PING

[eleni121]

The web home of the Museum

http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/default.php?pname=Home&la=2

[eleni121]

perspective

[eleni121]

Anyone going this year?

[null and void]

Has 0bama apologized yet?

[eleni121]

This stolen and abused Greek patrimony must be returned to its home.

East Pediment

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The marbles should be returned now that Greece is prepared to care for them. If they hadn’t been taken by the British; most of them would have been either reduced to rubble, or sold off to private collectors by now.

[Islam=Murder]

In another 2000 years, do you think people will dig and find a marble statue of Obama holding my wallet?

[Richard Kimball]

I took a graduate course in Greek Sculpture. My understanding is that the only reason many of these sculptures even exist is because of the British. Many of the damaged sculptures were considered scrap marble and ground into concrete. There was a completely different attitude about historical art in the 1800s. If a sculpture was damaged, with missing arms or legs, it was considered of little or no value.

The Greeks did not become that interested in their sculptural history until within the last century. The pictured image "Athena of Piraeus" was discovered when digging a sewer line. It had been buried as junk. It's been over thirty years since I took the class, but IIRC, a museum director was walking by and saw part of the arm as a backhoe operator opened the hole. When the director tried to stop the project to recover the sculpture, the workmen became very upset and threatened him. They feared the job would be shut down for an archeological dig.

[RobinOfKingston]

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.

[BenLurkin]

Good thing Lord Elgin acted decisively to preserve the priceless artifacts.

[wildbill]

Lord Elgin stole them fair and square, trying to save them from destruction when the Greeks couldn’t do squat.