Over the door of the Kabul (Afganistan) museum today is a Persian quotation:
A nation stays alive when its culture and history are kept alive
Browsing Posts published by Thanos Voudouris
British Museum, make it right. Give Them Back!
Just walking up the steps of Propylaea…you are in awe!
The great entrance…passing through the massive columns of Propyleae…
In early 1800s, Elgin the vandal…hacked and decapitated…the most renowned building in the world…
The Temple of Goddess Athena! …She Wants Them Back!
The Marble Sculptures belong to Her.
The Acropolis Museum…a marvel of Art and modern engineering…waiting for their return.
The old Athens under your feet…Ictinus and Callicrates with Phidias overlooking from the Parthenon as the Athenian sun bathes the creations of Phidias.
British Museum, make it right. Give Them Back!
Click image to watch the video – music: Mikis Theodorakis (4 minutes)
The Parthenon has always been the soul of Greece
“There’s little doubt that the Greeks became the corner stone of the edifice of the West. Their philosophy, science, technology, political theory, democracy, art, dramatic theater, architecture, literature, athletics and mythology gave rise to Western culture, a living and aspiring way of life for much of humanity…” More…
The lucky ones visiting the Acropolis this summer, will see the Parthenon without the ugly scaffolding. The equipment are being dismantled from the north side and the work reveals the middle eight columns (from 4th to 11th). Also removed the cement and rusted iron from past operations. Six marble metopes from the north side are replaced with copies, as the original works of Phidias are transferred to the Acropolis Museum.
The Propylaea is also free of scaffolding.
The article in the comment below was published in New York Times.
The author is missing the whole point of the looting and vandalism and pretends the British have the marbles in some legitimate way!
His statement: “…the British still make the better case” is based on foolish arguments like the vast majority of people including the British are rooting for the “Greeks playing the underdog role of the old Red Sox vs NY Yankees”
Elgin did not “spirited them [sculptures] from the Acropolis in Athens”, but he literally hacked them off the solid marble blocks and he vandalized the Temple.
There are countless such statements and assumptions not only for the Parthenon Marbles but in the other references to other major pieces of antiquity that have been looted, including the statement that Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s chief archaeologist, made recent “fuss” about the Rosetta Stone.
Of course one who writes that “today’s Acropolis is itself a kind of fiction” he has not experienced being there. Just by walking up the steps pass the Propylaea, one will feel the admiration. Being there. At the Acropolis.
Should this kind of journalism published by NYT?
See full article and comments…
Recent Comments