“The obligation to return the Parthenon sculptures lies squarely with the UK government.” Greek PM Kriakos Mitsotakis calls for talks with the UK, offers to loan treasures to the British Museum in exchange for the Parthenon sculptures.
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After five months of discussing the history of the Parthenon Sculptures and considering the various angles whether they belong all together in the purpose-built Acropolis Museum or should remain divided, Don Morgan Nielsen reflects on all the arguments for and against their repatriation.
The movement to return the Parthenon marbles to their motherland was started in the 1980s. But it is not just the Elgin marbles that have been removed from Greece. Some of the most magnificent Greek sculptures ever created are in fact located in various museums around the world, proudly representing the country in which they were born.
In this week’s Parthenon Report, Don Morgan Nielsen introduces readers to the notion of the “Universal” Museum as used by the British Museum in their attempt to redefine and reframe the argument concerning cultural restitution.
Don Morgan Nielsen explores the British Museum’s cliché “floodgates argument”, which is usually deployed to resist the return of the Parthenon Sculptures.
Don Morgan Nielsen continues his dash through the history of narrative art and also looks at some other storytelling masterpieces since the time of Pericles as he considers their part in this great rollicking variety show of humanity.
On 29 September 2021 the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property…
In this week’s Parthenon Report, Don Morgan Nielsen looks at the concept of “narrative” and the Sculptures’ role in a great story that was broken and interrupted by Elgin and remains broken and interrupted to this day.
Don Morgan Nielsen looks at how the British Museum plays semantic games with the concept of ‘integrity’ when it comes to its Collection and the Parthenon Sculptures.
In this week’s Parthenon Report Don Morgan Nielsen presents the great men and women whose philhellenic stance made a significant contribution to Greek culture.
In this week’s Parthenon Report Don Morgan Nielsen looks at two ancient Romans who also play a role in our story; a lawyer and an emperor.
In this week’s Parthenon Report, Don Morgan Nielsen explores the fine line between the justice of morality and conventional legal justice in the international effort to have the British Museum return the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece.
In this week’s column for the repatriation of the Parthenon sculptures, Don Morgan Nielsen opens the case for a legal challenge at the International Court of Justice.
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Greek City Times has invited Mr. Nielsen to enter into a conversation with our readers – in the form of a weekly column called “The Parthenon Report”, which will explore many of the issues related to the repatriation of the Parthenon Sculptures.
The Ancient Greeks revered their gods in statuary and sculpture and art and Persephone was no exception because of her rare beauty and intensity. The Two Goddesses famously adorned the East Pediment of the Parthenon atop the Acropolis in their “marbl’d immortality” until they were forcibly removed by Lord Elgin and his men, beginning in 1802.
by Le Grec Because it’s the right thing to do. “The marbles belong in…