After filling in the sheet we stood up and ranged ourselves along the lenght of the classroom to represent our positions and moved ourselves around as we listened to the debate.
The elgin marble debate.
A 75 m long part of the original 160 m parthenon frieze.
Elgin marble argument in a new light the new york times june 2009.
In 1810 elgin published a defence of his actions but the subject remained controversial.
Curently the elgin marbles constitute one of the most important collections of the british museum.
Elgin had managed to keep the marbles from the french but the same could not be said about his own person.
I believe that based on greece s efforts and heritage the elgin marbles should be repatriated to athens.
Crossing france on his homeward journey to london he was impris oned and remained in.
A marble frieze temple aka a doric temple on the athenian acropolis greece built in 447 432 bc and dedicated to the goddess athena.
The temple was the centrepiece of an ambitious building programme on the acropolis of athens the british museum explains in 1687 the temple which had stood for about 2 000 years was largely destroyed during a war between venice and the ottoman.
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.
Works cited kimmelman michael.
All acropolis marble held by greece have had the entire faces of the statues eaten away by the pollution not so to the elgin marbles for visual prove look at wikipedia page caryatid and compare the photo of a caryatid in the british museum vs the porch of the caryatids on the erectheion in greece.
15 of the 92 original metopes from the parthenon representing the fight between the centaurs and the lapiths.
We had this debate after seeing the marbles in the british museum so there is not much introduction to what they are here.
Global fame local claim by e yalouri berg 2001 links.
Lord elgin and the marbles.