Parthenon Marbles

Hellenic Electronic Center (HEC) For the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles


By Andrew George*
While the current financial crisis dominates all current press coverage relating to Greece, there is no reason why we should use this as an excuse to ignore other key Anglo-Hellenic issues…

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Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian

PM dismisses suggestion by Liberal Democrat that collection of classical Greek marble sculptures should be returned to Athens

Andrew George, the Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives, reopened the issue of the marble sculptures, currently in the British Museum, when he incorporated the Greek financial crisis in a Commons question.

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A so true quote from Things That Never Made It Into Print…
“…that were (Marbles) sawed off by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, in the early 1800s while ambassador of the British Empire while Greece was under Ottoman occupation. So the British were actually allies — or partners — in this theft.

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Greek calls for the UK to return the Parthenon Marbles, nearly 200 years after they were removed from the Acropolis and shipped to London, have a new advocate leading the battle in the UK…
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08 November 2010, London THE WINNERS of the UK travel trade’s most prestigious annual tourism project awards were announced at the British Guild of Travel Writers’ Annual Gala Awards Dinner held at the Savoy in London on 07Nov2010.

The Acropolis Museum in Athens won the British Guild of Travel Writers’ (BGTW) prestigious global award for the Best Worldwide Tourism Project for 2010.

Yiorgos Nikitiadis, deputy minister of culture and tourism, received the award representing the Greek government. He thanked the organizers and noted the return of the Parthenon Marbles should now just be a matter of time.

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  • Kathimerini – Το Μουσείο της Ακρόπολης στα 25 κορυφαία παγκοσμίως, σύμφωνα με την TripAdvisor (2015)
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