From the article: The Elgin Marbles / Parthenon Sculptures
In the early nineteenth century British Lord Elgin rescued/looted sculptures and stone from the Parthenon. The Greek government now wants them back, but the British Museum argues they have an educational home in London. Should they be returned or stay where they are? Why do you think this? Share Your Opinion
BELONGS TO BRITISH
- Guest Stephens right !British has all the right to not give em' back.So Greece should stop wasting there time!
- —Guest Guest Silvia
No
- Here's the deal to all you out there. The Ottoman Turks overthrough Athens and therefore everything in Athens belonged to the Turks. Lord Elgin came along and PURCHASED the Marbles from the Turks in hopes of keeping them from being destroyed. After a few years, the British realized how valuable these Marbles were. They PURCHASED them and placed them in the British Museum, where they have resided from them til now. If you had a garage sale and sold your neighbor a lamp, you wouldn't go to that neighbor later and say that the lamp belonged to you and you wanted it back. You just don't do that. That's what the Greeks are asking. If they want to PURCHASE them and the British are WILLING to sell then I'd have no problem with it, but the British purchased them and therefore are the rightful owners.
- —Guest Stephen
Give them back
- The British Museum needs to act with integrity and return all peices taken by Lord Elgin frm the Parthenon. Obviously, Greece is perfectly capable of preserving these stones and they belong in Greece, at the Parthenon!
- —Guest Linda
Send them Back!
- Every side of this has its own arguments. But at the end of the day, if you've seen the marbles, both those in BM and those in New Acropolis Museum, it's what your heart says that counts. Do the right thing.
- —Guest Barracuda
Reunite them
- For me, this isn't really an issue of where they should be. It is more that the Parthenon Marbles should be reunited. Half of the survivors are in Greece while the other half are in London (and one is in the Louvre). They belong together and as the building that they were removed from is still in Athens, then that is the logical place for them all to be.
- —Guest Dipsy
Send them back
- Now the Museum is a reality, no argument exist for avoiding the returning of the Parthenon Marbles as we must call them. Of course there is another serius argument for British museum, in order to keep this stolen treasure. If Greeks and Egyprians and everybody else gets back their cultural inheritage, what might left? Possibly nothing, then the museum will close, some people will loose jobs. In recesion times like this we live we can afford some more unemployed people. I guess this might be a good argument.
- —olymbiak
Elgin Mables
- Can the Elgin Marbles be a special loan from Greece to England? Greece has the ownership and England has the right to display. eva- nj
- —teagallery
stolen property
- Is the British Museum not the biggest repository in the world of stolen property?
- —Guest Ruby Tuesday
Their british now , so hands off
- Their never going back, the greek goverment should stop moaning and get on with life. More people get to visit them in London anyway as the british museum is the most visted of them all. And with the olympics coming their no more a fitting place.
- —Guest Michael
Marbles belongs to parthenon
- Moral starts where interest ends. British museum makes money from parthenon marbles, don't expect to ship them back.
- —Guest Mikle
GREECE!!!
- They are from Greece, so return them to there!!!!!!!!
- —Guest Erin
Send them back!!!!
- The Parthenon Marbles belongs to Greece and to Greeks. What Elgin did was to stole the by taking advantage of the turkish occupation in Greece and now the British Museum continues to takes advantage of the stolen history of Greece. British have no right to keep them in Britain. If i'm not wrong, Elgin was a lord, but he acted like a common thief, sorry, a high class thief. Maybe to present day MP's follow his steps by stealing money from the British tax payers. I want Pathenon Marbles back!!!!!!!
- —Guest olymbiak
They should be returned to their home-GR
- They were taken as many other items had been. Greece did not have the power to stop them. It is not right to take away something that belongs to someone else, its steeling. They should be taken home.
- —Guest Dolores
Greek Ruins
- The English need artistic inspiration.They should keep the Elgin Marbles.Since the Peloponnesian War conquering people have looted the Greeks. All these statues cannot be returned.It sounds like work for attorneys,not art historians or the governments.
- —Guest bilgewater
They Should Go Back to Greece
- I definitely think that they should go back to Greece! They are part of the Greek heritage and have no relation to the history of the British Isles!
- —Guest Judy Peterson
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