The opening of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens in spring 2008 provides the opportunity to re-state the case for the return of the Elgin Marbles to Athens. The British Museum's long-standing objection that there is nowhere in Athens to house the Marbles is answered in emphatic style. Meanwhile, decisions concerning the restitution of cultural artefacts are increasingly recognized as of national importance, and are no longer left solely to curators and museum directors. With new contributions from leading authorities, this new edition of Christopher Hitchens' elegantly argued and characteristically forthright book will make a powerful contribution to ensuring that the Marbles return to their place of origin.
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS is a journalist and author of numerous books, including most recently the New York Times No. 1 bestseller God Is Not Great. He lives in Washington DC.
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16 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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This book outlines a great arguement by the author as to why he feels that the Elgin Marbles (ie The marble statues and carvings that adorned the Parthenon in ancient Athens) should be returned to Greece.
Hitchens sets out his stall from the outset as to why he feels that Elgin's actions were morally wrong. He then goes on to counter every argument laid forth by The British Museum over the years.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is thinking of visiting or has recently visited The British Museum in London.
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By tone1201
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Hitchens is articulate as ever, but you should know (even if he doesn't) that each year the number of people who visit the British Museum AND SEE THE ELGIN MARBLES THERE is far greater than the number of people who visit any part of the whole city of Athens for any reason. That is why the collections of the British Museum, with its great remit to educate and enlighten a vast public free of charge, is a far greater cultural artefact than the Parthenon itself, with or without the Marbles enclosed in a shiny new glass box a mile away. Cast off your post-colonial guilt - keep the Marbles where the most people can see them, and within a priceless context of ancient Greek artefacts and scholarship. They can never be returned to the Parthenon itself so the 'in situ' argument is nonsense. And by the way, the building of the new, empty museum in Athens caused irreparable archaeological damage to the ancient city below. This was a political, not a cultural or archaeological, gesture.
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Used this book as a reference for writing an essay on whether the Elgin Marbles should be returned to Greece. It was indispensable for both historical and debate content.
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By R. J. Marsella
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I've been fortunate enough to see the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum and might be expected to sympathize with the argument put forward by those who think leaving them in London allows for greater access to more people. Nevertheless the arguments presented here for returning them to Athens to be displayed in the context of the new Parthenon/Acropolis museum made great sense to me. it is hard to read the history and the record of how they arrived in London without being convinced that they really belong to GREECE.
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30 Dec 2009
By Betty Hood
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The photo of the cover needs to read:
The Parthenon Marbles
The Marbles never belonged to Elgin, Thomas Bruce, the whatever Earl of whatever.
They belong to the temple built to honor Athena, for all that she meant to Athens and the rest of the world.
Bruce probably died without ever reaching this essential insight and distinction.
And this ignorance is prevalent to this day--not with all persons--but most certainly The British Museum believes as he did.
Still living in The Age of Darkness, those Trustees of Art are.
The Parthenon Marbles
The Marbles never belonged to Elgin, Thomas Bruce, the whatever Earl of whatever.
They belong to the temple built to honor Athena, for all that she meant to Athens and the rest of the world.
Bruce probably died without ever reaching this essential insight and distinction.
And this ignorance is prevalent to this day--not with all persons--but most certainly The British Museum believes as he did.
Still living in The Age of Darkness, those Trustees of Art are.
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