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1. ENGLISH - Bring Them back: The Parthenon Marbles Should Be Returned To Athens – 7 youtube videos
Legends for the 6 photos …
PHOTO 1 - I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE SO LONELY WITHOUT MY SISTERS
PHOTO 2 - DON'T WORRY YOU'LL GET USED TO THE WEATHER
PHOTO 3 - HEAD TO BODY DISTANCE 1500 MILES
PHOTO 4 - I WANT TO RUN ON THE HILLS OF OLYMPUS! / - AND WHO KEEPS YOU HERE?
PHOTO 5 - ARE WE IN ATHENS YET?
PHOTO 6 - HEY! THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO ATHENS!
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Law, Morals and the Parthenon Marbles
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I am Greek and I say …
I don’t consider the Parthenon as just an ancient Greek monument, or just a monument of democracy.
I think it as an ecumenical symbol that cannot remain divided.
If the British Museum, a big, world class museum, considers that cutting out of the frieze which is like a parade, and keeping it prisoner as one of its own pieces is something that represents world culture, this is a mistake, from a political and a moral aspect.
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The British Museum says …
The Parthenon Sculptures play a pivotal role in telling a world story at the British Museum. Together with the wider collection, they help modern-day audiences see how the world they know is shaped by the past.
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I say …
A museum can not be called ecumenical when it teaches …
What does the British Museum teach with the Parthenon Sculptures ? Stealing ?
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The case the British Museum makes is in my opinion very weak because rests on the case about legality, and If you go back in about 1800 was not state of modern Greece, but there was s state of the United Kingdom or Britain, and the British Museum trustees rely upon an Act of Parliament passed in 1816 … We are now in 2023 ... Come on British Museum … Get real ! … Get modern … Remember that we are now are living in a total different post imperial … post colonial … world … in which countries should do the decent thing … and don’t go and steal …
And going a little back to history … regarding the motivation of Lord Elgin in removing the marbles … Quite a lot depends on how much trust we put on what he said about what he was trying to do … Actually his first motive … just like that of his fellow aristocrats was to get hold of some nice Greek things to bring back to his home up in Northern Scotland … so nothing to do such as saving the sculptures for the Nation …
Though he was of course Britain’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and so his first motivation was purely personal … When that become unfeasible … that in other words he spent so much money, that he needed to have some money back, he offered to sell them to the British Nation, which required an Act of Parliament … So his second motivation was to recoup the money he had spent not for the good of the British Nation but he had spend on his own behalf.
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Who Owns History? The Case for the Return of the Parthenon Marbles
Cultural heritage belongs to the people of whose history it is a part of, unless its return would impose danger to the artwork itself. And since the movement for the restitution of cultural property is based on human rights and international law, governments that want it back must show respect for the rights of the peoples on whose behalf they make the claim.
Who Owns History? not only delves into the crucial debate over the Marbles, but examines how the past can be experienced by everyone, as well as by the people of the country of origin.
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