Parthenon Marbles
Art
Australians Doubt Parthenon Marbles Return
Australians for the Return of the Parthenon Sculptures, the Australian Association with the aim to promote, facilitate and support, nationally and internationally the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, published a media release entitled The Parthenon Sculptures at...
Greece
Greek Culture Minister on Return of Parthenon Marbles
Greek Culture Minister Panos Panayiotopoulos, addressing the presidents and members of the national committees for the return of the Parthenon Marbles of Cyprus, Germany, Sweden, Britain, Switzerland and Australia, in the framework of the International Conference held at the...
Archaeology
UNESCO Mediates Parthenon Marbles Fight
On October 6 in Athens the International Conference of committees will be held, which is a very important moment for the effort to return the Parthenon Marbles.
After the meeting of the Greek Minister of Culture and Sports with the...
Australia
Kotsiras Wants Parthenon Marbles Returned
The Greek community of Australia is keeping alive the issue of the return of the Parthenon Marbles, stolen property housed in the British Museum, which refuses to give them back and claims they belong now to England.
Minister of Energy...
Archaeology
Cooperation for Return of Parthenon Marbles
The return of the Parthenon Marbles was at the center of the meeting that the Minister of Culture and Sports Panos Panagiotopoulos held on Sept. 24 with the Delegate to the International Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon...
Culture
Critchley Says Parthenon Marbles Are Greece's
Simon Critchley, a professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City, brought the house down at the 23d World Congress of Philosophy meeting in Athens when he said the Parthenon Marbles stolen from the Acropolis nearly...
Culture
Acropolis Museum World’s 3d Best
The British newspaper The Sunday Times places the Acropolis Museum third in a list of the best 50 museums of the world, despite some criticism when it opened about its cement facade.
“The Acropolis Museum, a shiny new home for...
Culture
Greek Committee To Claim Parthenon Marbles
Deputy Minister of Culture Kostas Tzavaras is setting up a special committee to push for return of the marbles stolen from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin, a British diplomat, more than 200 years and now housed in in the...
Art
Cameron: Britain Will Keep Parthenon Marbles
British Prime Minister David Cameron has reiterated that England will keep the stolen Parthenon Marbles plundered from the Acropolis nearly 200 years ago by a British diplomat because he doesn’t believe in “returnism.”
Cameron cited the marbles, stolen goods sold...
Europe
Students Wave Greek Flag at British Museum
Fifteen-year-old students of the 2nd High School of Corinth accompanied by three teachers traveled to London and gave their own message of the Parthenon Marbles waving four Greek flags and shouting the slogan: BRING THEM BACK!
The students delivered 36...