Comments on: Peter Hitchens supports the return of the Elgin Marbles http://www.elginism.com/20050604/127/ Elgin Marbles (Parthenon Marbles or Sculptures) Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:10:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cultural vandalism | Jonathan Knott http://www.elginism.com/20050604/127/comment-page-1/#comment-6925 Cultural vandalism | Jonathan Knott Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:17:49 +0000 http://www.elginism.com/20050604/127/#comment-6925 [...] The Parthenon has suffered two wantonly destructive acts.  First, when the Turkish used as a gunpowder store and it was mortared by Venetian forces in 1687.  And secondly, when Lord Elgin levered off the ‘Elgin marbles’ to take home to Britain in the nineteenth century.  (The return of the Parthenon sculptures is apparently one of the few things the Hitchens brothers can agree on). [...] [...] The Parthenon has suffered two wantonly destructive acts.  First, when the Turkish used as a gunpowder store and it was mortared by Venetian forces in 1687.  And secondly, when Lord Elgin levered off the ‘Elgin marbles’ to take home to Britain in the nineteenth century.  (The return of the Parthenon sculptures is apparently one of the few things the Hitchens brothers can agree on). [...]

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