The Parthenon Marbles

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The Case for Reunification

Christopher Hitchens, Charalamabos Bouras, Robert Browning , Nadine Gordimer

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English

Verso
27 June 2008

Non-graphic art forms; Museums & museology; History

The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then ambassador to the Turkish government, had chunks of the frieze sawn off and shipped to England, where they were subsequently seized by Parliament and sold to the British Museum to help pay off his debts.

This scandal, exacerbated by the inept handling of the sculptures by their self-appointed guardians, remains unresolved to this day. In his fierce, eloquent account of a shameful piece of British imperial history, Christopher Hitchens makes the moral, artistic, legal and political case for re-unifying the Parthenon frieze in Athens.

The opening of the New Acropolis Museum emphatically trumps the British Museum's long-standing (if always questionable) objection that there is nowhere in Athens to house the Parthenon Marbles. With contributions by Nadine Gordimer and Professor Charalambos Bouras, The Parthenon Marbles will surely end all arguments about where these great treasures belong, and help bring a two-centuries-old disgrace to a just conclusion.

By: Christopher Hitchens
Preface by: Nadine Gordimer
Contributions by: Charalamabos Bouras, Robert Browning
Imprint: Verso
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 212g
ISBN: 9781844672523
ISBN 10: 1844672522
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 27 June 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS is a journalist and author of numerous books, including most recently the New York Times No. 1 bestseller God Is Not Great. He lives in Washington DC.