ACROPOLIS: The opening of the new museum
Thе nеw museum οf thе Acropolis hаѕ opened аnd іѕ ready fοr thе return οf thе stolen marbles. Thе stolen artefacts wеrе removed frοm thе Parthenon іn 1801 bу Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl οf Elgin, hаνе suffered frοm 19th century pollution аnd thеу hаνе bееn irrevocably hυrt bу cleaning methods employed bу British Museum staff. Safekeeping οf thе Marbles wουld bе ensured аt thе Nеw Acropolis Museum, situated tο thе south οf thе Acropolis hill. It wаѕ built tο hold thе Parthenon sculptures arranged іn thе same way аѕ thеу wουld hаνе bееn οn thе Parthenon. Thе museum’s facilities hаνе bееn equipped wіth state-οf-thе-art technology fοr thе protection аnd preservation οf exhibits.
@SuperTheos
i really agree with you…BRING THEM BACK…
BringThemBack!!! Greek History for Greeks!!
RETURN THE STOLEN
What I am trying to say is: even if we had a Taliban Regime in Greece, the marbles would still belong to the Parthenon (not the Greeks, not the Athenians, let alone the Orthodox Church) and the Parthenon happens to be still on its Holy Rock.
So was the reaction to demolishing the two houses, that’s why they are still there. I signed the petition too and so did all my friends. In any case, the British should deal with their own problems and let the rest of the world deal with their own, the way they reckon they should…
You result in up so many different issues: Greek Orthodox Church, of course they ruined greek monuments… Of course they were ashamed to see that in the movie by Gavras… Of course they pressed the museum to take these scenes away… The reaction was massive
You might be amazed, but I really agree with nearly everything you say. If you are interested in these matters I want to discuss them to detail per e-mail. The space here is too restricted…
It allows everyone to actively tell to history, and not not remember the wrongdoings of imperialism. I wish the Netherlands (where I come from) had a clear case as that to represent their colonial history. It would make everyone much more alert in this day. I was on trip in Greece this summer, sadly I got the impression that about 95% of the Greeks care nothing for their heritage, even as the rest of Europe still looks at it through the eyes of Winckelmann…
The cases prove again and again, that history ( as we see it) is but a construct of our own time, our own vision on the past, which is not necessarily the right one. Yes the marbles were unrightfully stolen, but if the Athenians can’t even consider to conserve relatively younger heritage (the houses), why should they be given posession over those marbles? Yes I reckon they should be returned, but on the other hand the report behind the marbles and it’s controversy is something everyone remembers.
Not Directly, but indirect there is. Greece is trying hard to prove that they respect their ancestral heritage, but at the same time they immediatly get a green light to demolish those two buildings that come from another vital period. (now there are protests but, which I reckon is excellent!) Don’t underestimate the power of politics when it comes to these cases. Recently the museum altered a video, just because the Greek Orthodox church objected to the negative view on their historical role
My humble attitude is that the argument is not trying at all. The marbles were stolen with violence and they belong to the Parthenon, period. They were made by Athenian Democracy and stolen by British Imperialism, is there anything political about that?
If you read my note carefully, you will see I refer to Athens alone, (Sparta was never free for instance) It is also right that it was there only for the free Athenian men (not for women or slaves or foreigners) still it was a democracy and we don’t need german scholars to prove anything when we have the very ancient texts, Thucydides to start with.
My note was an answer to an argument claiming that Greece doesn’t deserve the marbles due to the terrible shape of its democracy…
Really the founding of democracy in very ancient Greece is a construct by the 18th century German writer Johan Joachim Winckelmann. He made the idealistic view that is the way we see very ancient Greece in these times. There were small parts of Greece where democracy was but a temporal state of affairs, and only for the upper class.
The debate around the Elgin/ Parthenon Marbles is a trying one. Persistent them to Greece for nationalistic views or politic goals is incorrect but (my humble attitude)
Not to the museum!
The PARTHENON
I have been in that museum and I did not see anything British in it !
Only GREEK; ROMAN AND EGYPTIAN.
The marbles belong to the Parthenon and not to Greece!
If you entail that corruption is unique to Greece ….. I have news for you!
CORRUPTION IS IN EVERY COUNTRY, The methods are different !
the nerve of a thief …
post more of this .. it is excellent for the world to see who are against the return of the stolen legasy !!
you don’t deserve what Greece has given to the world…..just wasted on you
Democracy was invented in very ancient Athens when London wasn’t but a swamp. It is right that there is lots of corruption in Greece nowadays but this is not an argument. The marbles belong to the Goddess Athena because they were conceived by the creative spirit of Her worshippers. They belong to the light in which they were born and not in the shadow of an imperialistic crown…
go and learn some greek if you want translation..
after all, it’s the mother language of all languages around the world..
….”wide non-Greek speaking audience”….
sostos
ase mas re file pou den tha uphrxe tipota
K ti einai auto pou prospatheis esu na peis twra?
Einai sobarh dikaologia na paramenoun se bretanika xeria?
Zoume sto paron, kai twra h Ellada exei ola ta fonta na ta prostatepsei , epomenws oi arxaiokaphloi bretanoi dene xoun kanena logo na ta kratane, ofeiloun na sumbaloun sthn oloklhrwsh ths sulloghs, pou PREPEI na ginei DIPLA apo to mnhmio sto opoio ANHKOUN OSA o ELGIN E K L E P S E me tis eulogies twn tourkaladwn
TELOS
ama den einai malakas ginete zoo …thlekateytynomeno…exoume arxaia xeroume na ta proothoume?k sthn telikh ama de ta eperne o elgein tora de tha yphrxe tipota…