Making a grand gresture by returning the elgin marbles.
The elgin marbles debate.
The british defend their ownership of the marbles based on greece s lack of an adequate museum and the fact that they paid for the pieces mcguigan 2.
When lord elgin removed the sculptures athens was under the control of the ottoman empire and had been.
Curently the elgin marbles constitute one of the most important collections of the british museum.
The elgin marbles controversy does not of course begin and end with elgin and the wording of his permits.
15 of the 92 original metopes from the parthenon representing the fight between the centaurs and the lapiths.
The real story of the elgin marbles.
Greece rules out suing british museum over elgin marbles a team of lawyers in london had recommended taking legal action for the long disputed collection of artifacts but athens has opted for.
Among the supporters of elgin was the painter benjamin robert haydon.
There is a longstanding debate over whether the elgin marbles should be returned to greece.
The objects were removed from the parthenon at athens and from other ancient buildings and shipped to england by arrangement of thomas.
A public debate in parliament followed elgin s publication and parliament again exonerated elgin s actions eventually deciding to purchase the marbles for the british nation in 1816 by a vote of 82 30.
A broader question which is an increasingly important one transcends the legal.
Live broadcast of the intellegence squared parthenon marbles debate at the new acropolis museum.
Lord elgin a staunch patriot had turned down lucrative offers from other governments for the treasures and argued all along that the marbles would add luster to britain s imperial image.
Even before all the sculptures soon known as the elgin marbles went on display in london lord byron attacked elgin in stinging verses lamenting in childe harold s pilgrimage how the.
Today much controversy surrounds the ownership elgin marbles both the british and greeks argue that each have legal and moral claim over the parliament s marble adornments.