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The Parthenon Marbles
The Case for Reunification
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Why the British Museum should hand back the Elgin Marbles The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then ambassador to the Turkish government,...
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Why the British Museum should hand back the Elgin Marbles
The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then ambassador to the Turkish government, had chunks of the frieze sawn off and shipped to England, where they were subsequently seized by Parliament and sold to the British Museum to help pay off his debts.
This scandal, exacerbated by the inept handling of the sculptures by their self-appointed guardians, remains unresolved to this day. In his fierce, eloquent account of a shameful piece of British imperial history, Christopher Hitchens makes the moral, artistic, legal, and political case for re-unifying the Parthenon frieze in Athens.
The opening of the New Acropolis Museum emphatically trumps the British Museum’s long-standing (if always questionable) objection that there is nowhere in Athens to house the Parthenon Marbles. With contributions by Nadine Gordimer and Professor Charalambos Bouras, The Parthenon Marbles will surely end all arguments about where these great treasures belong and help bring a two-centuries-old disgrace to a just conclusion.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781786633958
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 February 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Contributors:
- Contributions by Charalamabos Bouras
- Contributions by Robert Browning
- Preface by Nadine Gordimer
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 12.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 159g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was the author a number of polemics from geopolitics to religion. A regular contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic Monthly and Slate, he was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Prospect.
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