The elgin marbles controversy does not of course begin and end with elgin and the wording of his permits.
The elgin marbles debate.
Elgin marbles collection of ancient greek sculptures and architectural details in the british museum london where they are now called the parthenon sculptures.
Lord elgin a staunch patriot had turned down lucrative offers from other governments for the treasures and argued all along that the marbles would add luster to britain s imperial image.
The real story of the elgin marbles.
Among the supporters of elgin was the painter benjamin robert haydon.
Greece rules out suing british museum over elgin marbles a team of lawyers in london had recommended taking legal action for the long disputed collection of artifacts but athens has opted for.
A 75 m long part of the original 160 m parthenon frieze.
15 of the 92 original metopes from the parthenon representing the fight between the centaurs and the lapiths.
The objects were removed from the parthenon at athens and from other ancient buildings and shipped to england by arrangement of thomas.
Even before all the sculptures soon known as the elgin marbles went on display in london lord byron attacked elgin in stinging verses lamenting in childe harold s pilgrimage how the.
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.
When lord elgin removed the sculptures athens was under the control of the ottoman empire and had been.
Live broadcast of the intellegence squared parthenon marbles debate at the new acropolis museum.
Greece maintains that their demand is for permanent return of the parthenon marbles.
There is a longstanding debate over whether the elgin marbles should be returned to greece.
A broader question which is an increasingly important one transcends the legal.
Making a grand gresture by returning the elgin marbles.