Greek protesters hold candlelit vigil demanding return of Parthenon marbles – video Hundreds of protesters hold a candlelit vigil in Athens on Sunday demanding that Britain returns the Parthenon marbles. ‘We really need them back’ says the mayor of Marathon, a suburb of Athens, holding up a candle. The marble statues from the facade of […]
Six Greek women (representing the six Caryatids of Erechtheion) dressed in white togas launched an original protest to draw attention to repatriation issue of: The Return of Acropolis Sculptures to Greece. The group under the lead of renowned soprano Sonia Theodoridou wandered through the corridors and halls of the British Museum in London in search […]
They came to promote a film showing how millions of artworks were rescued and returned to their rightful owners after plunder by the Nazis. But George Clooney, Bill Murray and Matt Damon left implying that Britain, too, needed to have a long, hard, look at itself. The Hollywood actors had become embroiled in one of […]
Joan Breton Connelly rightly admonishes the British and other despoilers of the Parthenon to return their loot to Greece. She says that “the deliberate and sustained dismemberment of what are some of the most sublime images ever carved by humankind brings shame on those who work to uphold this state of affairs.” Book Review […]
JOAN BRETON CONNELLY: “The Parthenon sculptures were not made as stand-alone objects. They were made as part of a building, a building that still stands in the middle of Athens today. They reflect a people. They reflect a very ancient history. They reflect a religion that can only be understood when put together as a […]
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