As Greek dramas go, the struggle over a marble frieze pried from the Parthenon more than 200 years ago has had many acts and many actors. There were Ottoman rulers. A Scottish earl who hauled the antiquities back to Britain. A Greek actress who became the country’s culture minister, and lobbied tirelessly for the nearly 250 feet of marble gods, horsemen and mythical scenes to be returned to Athens from its stately home at the British Museum in London. Read full article
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