The Parthenon Marbles
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A deal with the British Museum and/or the British Government for any type of relocation of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece, other than a permanent relocation of all the Sculptures to Greece, is absurd, abhorrent and amateurish.
In his novel The Vampyre, John William Polidori, Lord Byron’s physician, captures his personal perception of ancient Greek glory during pre-Revolutionary War Greece: “He then fixed residence in the house of a Greek; and soon occupied himself in tracing the faded records of ancient glory upon monuments that apparently, ashamed of chronicling the deeds of freemen only before slaves, had hidden themselves beneath the sheltering soil or many coloured lichen.” (p. 8)
Imagine The British Museum “allowing” Greece, as your petition states, to display the Parthenon Sculptures for its upcoming bicentennial independence anniversary. When the Sculptures are eventually being prepared to be transported back to London, will these monuments built by freemen feel as ashamed as they did during the Ottoman occupation, as Polidori so eloquently put it, in the midst of flashbacks of Thomas Bruce?
Georgios Gialtouridis
Westwood, MA