The Elgin Marbles : Should They be Returned to Greece?

ISBN-13: 9781859842201 / Angielski

Christopher Hitchens; Christopher Hitchens; Robert Browning

Opis

The Elgin Marbles were designed and executed by Phidias to adorn the Parthenon. In 1801 Lord Elgin, then British ambassador to the Turkish government in Athens, had pieces of the frieze sawn off and removed to Britain, where they remain, igniting a storm of controversy which continues.