15 of the 92 original metopes from the parthenon representing the fight between the centaurs and the lapiths.
The elgin marbles debate.
Live broadcast of the intellegence squared parthenon marbles debate at the new acropolis museum.
A broader question which is an increasingly important one transcends the legal.
Among the supporters of elgin was the painter benjamin robert haydon.
Even before all the sculptures soon known as the elgin marbles went on display in london lord byron attacked elgin in stinging verses lamenting in childe harold s pilgrimage how the.
When lord elgin removed the sculptures athens was under the control of the ottoman empire and had been.
The british defend their ownership of the marbles based on greece s lack of an adequate museum and the fact that they paid for the pieces mcguigan 2.
Curently the elgin marbles constitute one of the most important collections of the british museum.
The real story of the elgin marbles.
There is a longstanding debate over whether the elgin marbles should be returned to greece.
The objects were removed from the parthenon at athens and from other ancient buildings and shipped to england by arrangement of thomas.
A 75 m long part of the original 160 m parthenon frieze.
Lord elgin a staunch patriot had turned down lucrative offers from other governments for the treasures and argued all along that the marbles would add luster to britain s imperial image.
Greece maintains that their demand is for permanent return of the parthenon marbles.
A public debate in parliament followed elgin s publication and parliament again exonerated elgin s actions eventually deciding to purchase the marbles for the british nation in 1816 by a vote of 82 30.
Making a grand gresture by returning the elgin marbles.
The elgin marbles controversy does not of course begin and end with elgin and the wording of his permits.