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The most powerful case yet made for the return of the Parthenon MarblesThe 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.
IT IS WELL WRITTEN by the powerful reporter and writer Christopher Hitchens. It is very informative based on historical facts. I hope the government of the United Kingom and the trustees of the British museum willl come to their senses and return the marblesto the place that they were created. It is time for the British government to correct their "Double Sin" that they have committed. Their original sin committed by their Lord Elgin, and the sin of the crime of our civilization of the 21st century that violates the values andthe principles of the legal and moral law by keeping the marbles in their British museum. The marbles are children of the Parthenon , and they belong to the Parthenon - they belong to Greece. The stealing and raping of the marbles of the Parthenon by the lord Elgin will always be an illegal and immoral stigma for the governments of the United Kingdom -until they will return the marbles of the Parthenon to Greece.
