The Case Of The Parthenon Marbles

When the parthenon was built between 447bc and 432bc three sets of sculptures the metopes the frieze and the pediments were created to adorn it.

The case of the parthenon marbles.

Following years of deconstructing the british museum s arguments for retaining the ancient greek sculptures in london and cultivating a favourable public. Britain may be losing its marbles over brexit. What are the parthenon marbles. The parthenon marbles of course were taken or rescued depending on your point of view from the acropolis by lord elgin in the early nineteenth century when greece was part of the ottoman.

London march 17 2015 independent balkan news agency by thanasis gavos the end of march will signify a potentially major shift of the basis on which the parthenon marbles reunification case has been developing. The elgin marbles sometimes referred to as the parthenon sculptures are a collection of marble sculptures that originally adorned the top of the exterior of the parthenon in athens greece and. They belong to the temple built to honor athena for all that she meant to athens and the rest of the world. The parthenon marbles the marbles never belonged to elgin thomas bruce the whatever earl of whatever.

As part of negotiations with the european union the u k. These pages contain detailed information on the parthenon elgin marbles together with the case for their return to athens greece. This argument is based on the assertion that lord elgin committed an illegal act when he removed the sculptures from the parthenon and exported them to britain in the early 1800s. Of these the metopes and the frieze were part of the structure of the parthenon itself.

Approximately half of the parthenon marbles are in london at the british museum and half are in athens at the acropolis museum. At the time greece was under the control of the ottoman empire which was headquartered in constantinople now istanbul in turkey. They were originally part of the temple of the parthenon and other buildings on the acropolis of athens. Hera and zeus on a section of the parthenon frieze at the british museum in london.

γλυπτά του παρθενώνα also known as the elgin marbles ˈɛlɡɪn are a collection of classical greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of the architect and sculptor phidias and his assistants. The site of the british committee for the reunification of the parthenon marbles. Bruce probably died without ever reaching this essential insight and distinction.