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Sunday, October 19, 2014

As a Briton, I hang my head in shame. We must return the Elgin marbles

Now Amal Clooney has reignited the debate over the Parthenons crowning glory, its time we rectified a historic wrong. Reunite these ancient sculptures with their homeAlmost every day I take a walk around the Acropolis. Around is the operative word, because the Greeks have gone to great lengths to unite their Athenian antiquities with a pedestrian path.At the centre of this classical treasure trove stands the craggy outcrop known as the Sacred Rock. As you ascend the walkway, it is what crowns its summit that leaps out at you. For there, amid the pines, is the Parthenon, the greatest temple of all, peerless, incandescent white, the embodiment in marble of the glory that was the Golden Age. Continue reading...


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