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Elgin Marbles

            The best website for the return of the Parthenon marble is www.org/parthenon/marbles/, this website offers background information of how the marbles ended up in London, the history of the marbles, a gallery page and is sponsor of the Parthenon 2004 campaign. All objectives for the campaign are listed and include some goals like convincing the United Kingdom government and museum to agree to return the marbles to the New Acropolis museum where a glass structure has been erected to one day house the marbles once they are returned. Also things like having the issue of where the marbles should be kept as a debate topic in educational settings. I think this website is the best in support for the return of the Parthenon marbles because it gives a lot of information on the Parthenon 2004 campaign and lists several ways in which you can support their cause and offer an opportunity to email the Ministry of Culture in London asking the Heritage Minister to engage in negotiations with the Greek government for the return of the marbles. This website offers mass amounts of information surrounding the dispute between the United Kingdom and Greek governments over the rights of possession for the marbles. Some strong points made by the webmasters include that the .
             British claim that the marbles were legitimately bought from the Turks with the document Sultan's Firman backing that up, the webmaster rebuttal simply states that buying objects from a conqueror of a conquered land is the same as buying objects from a burglar. It simply wasn't the Turk's to sell in the first place and it was not purchased from proper authorities but bribed from the Turks with luxurious gifts from Lord Elgin. One other reason is that when Elgin removed the marbles he also caused a significant amount of damage to the base of the Parthenon and also sawed some statues in half in order to make shipment of the marbles easier.


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1. Britain, Greece and the Elgin Marbles

... time Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire. The main purpose of this article is to show both arguments for why the marbles should be returned to Greece or why they should stay in Britain. After removing the marbles Elgin then sold the sculptures to the British museum in 1816 where they sit protected from the elements, vandals, or any other destructive forces ... of the Greek culture and should be returned to their rightful home. The Greeks claim that Elgin wrongfully removed the marbles and they never legally belonged to the British museum. However, Elgin had the necessary paperwork f...

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2. The Elgin Marbles: Lusieri's Perspective

... goal, besides recovering my lost paintings, to straighten things out. The most appropriate thing to start with would probably be a brief summary of the events that took place involving the marbles. Lord Elgin, Thomas Bruce, became Ambassador to the Sublime Porte at Constantinople in 1799. Almost immediately, he started a project of making sketches and casts of the Athenian ruins. It was in ... it issued by the legal government of the time but it was also decided in the eyes of the British Government to be legitimate as the Parthenon Marbles official website states. "The question of the ...

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3. Ode on a Grecian Urn

... Urn When Keats started writing, in the early 19th century, ancient art was in fashion and Greek images were very popular. When he was taken by a friend to see the Elgin Marbles, the Urn, in particular, caught Keats' eye and he returned frequently to visit. Both the Romantics and Victorians addressed the idea of preserving the perfect moment and Keats' "Ode to ... ...

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