John Keats was 21 years old in 1817 when he wrote the poem “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”, where he expressed mixed feelings of awe for the sculptures and their
Not only Greece, which is the birthplace of these cultural treasures, but also the whole world should make sure the Acropolis sculptures are gathered in the area and the
Let those who are not still convinced that the sculptures should be returned to Athens , go to the Acropolis. Let them “listen” to the marbles. Let them see the
The unforgettable Melina Mercouri had said: “I hope, before I die to see the marbles of the Parthenon in Greece. But if they return after I die, I will reborn”.
In 1927 John Gennadius reset in the authorities of the British Museum, the issue of the return of the Parthenon marbles to Greece. In the reply he received, inter alia,
On 15th April 1802, Mary Elgin , wife of Lord Elgin, writes in her diary that a Greek worker confessed to her that as they were removing the statues from
Negotiating with the British Museum, Elgin set as a condition these masterpieces of our ancestors to bear his name. So unfortunately from 1816 until today they are called ‘Elgin
35 years after my first visit to the Acropolis, the Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA) trusted our family business with the sculpting of nine drums and the creation of two triglyphs
