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Wall Street Journal
23-05-2025
- General
- Wall Street Journal
‘Frieze Frame' Review: The Case of the Parthenon Marbles
The debate surrounding the rightful place of the Parthenon Marbles, which were removed from the Acropolis, the site of the ancient complex of temples that overlooks Athens, by agents of Lord Elgin and delivered to London in the first years of the 19th century, is an old one—so old that its terms were framed by the poets Byron and Keats in the 1810s, soon after the Marbles' arrival in England. Keats's 1817 visit to the British Museum, where the Marbles had been recently installed, inspired his rapturous sonnet 'On Seeing the Elgin Marbles' ('My spirit is too weak—Mortality / Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep'). His companion at the museum, the history painter and diarist Benjamin Haydon, encouraged the British government to purchase from Elgin the portions of the Parthenon frieze that he had acquired, and it is not unreasonable to suppose Keats agreed. He returned to examine them 'again and again,' his friend Joseph Severn remembered, 'and would sit for an hour or more at a time beside them rapt in revery.' Keats's reflections on mortality were not merely for effect—his death, of tuberculosis, came four years later.
Kuwait Times
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Kuwait Times
Clooney says confident Parthenon Marbles will return to Greece
US actor George Clooney arrives for the 78th Annual Tony Awards "Meet the Nominees" event in New York City.--AFP Oscar-winning actor George Clooney says he is certain the Parthenon Marbles will return to Greece, adding in an interview that their repatriation is a "family" matter for him and his wife. "They're going to come back. I know they are," Clooney told to the Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea in an interview published Saturday. Athens has for decades demanded the return of the sculptures from the British Museum, saying they were looted in 1802 by Lord Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Clooney's wife Amal Alamuddin Clooney, a human rights lawyer, has since 2011 advised several Greek governments to take the case to international courts. "That's all my wife and I both have worked" towards, Clooney said. "We'll keep pushing until it happens. There's no question about it." The current government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has escalated its efforts for the repatriation of the Marbles, making official and unofficial meetings with the new UK government of Keith Starmer last autumn. - AFP
Asharq Al-Awsat
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Clooney Says Confident Parthenon Marbles Will Return to Greece
Oscar-winning actor George Clooney says he is certain the Parthenon Marbles will return to Greece, adding in an interview that their repatriation is a "family" matter for him and his wife. "They're going to come back. I know they are," Clooney told to the Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea in an interview published Saturday. Athens has for decades demanded the return of the sculptures from the British Museum, saying they were looted in 1802 by Lord Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Clooney's wife Amal Alamuddin Clooney, a human rights lawyer, has since 2011 advised several Greek governments to take the case to international courts. "That's all my wife and I both have worked" towards, Clooney said. "We'll keep pushing until it happens. There's no question about it." The current government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has escalated its efforts for the repatriation of the Marbles, making official and unofficial meetings with the new UK government of Keith Starmer last autumn.
The Sun
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
George Clooney Backs Return of Parthenon Marbles
ATHENS: Oscar-winning actor George Clooney says he is certain the Parthenon Marbles will return to Greece, adding in an interview that their repatriation is a 'family' matter for him and his wife. 'They're going to come back. I know they are,' Clooney told to the Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea in an interview published Saturday. Athens has for decades demanded the return of the sculptures from the British Museum, saying they were looted in 1802 by Lord Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Clooney's wife Amal Alamuddin Clooney, a human rights lawyer, has since 2011 advised several Greek governments to take the case to international courts. 'That's all my wife and I both have worked' towards, Clooney said. 'We'll keep pushing until it happens. There's no question about it.' The current government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has escalated its efforts for the repatriation of the Marbles, making official and unofficial meetings with the new UK government of Keith Starmer last autumn.
The Sun
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Clooney says confident Parthenon Marbles will return to Greece
ATHENS: Oscar-winning actor George Clooney says he is certain the Parthenon Marbles will return to Greece, adding in an interview that their repatriation is a 'family' matter for him and his wife. 'They're going to come back. I know they are,' Clooney told to the Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea in an interview published Saturday. Athens has for decades demanded the return of the sculptures from the British Museum, saying they were looted in 1802 by Lord Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Clooney's wife Amal Alamuddin Clooney, a human rights lawyer, has since 2011 advised several Greek governments to take the case to international courts. 'That's all my wife and I both have worked' towards, Clooney said. 'We'll keep pushing until it happens. There's no question about it.' The current government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has escalated its efforts for the repatriation of the Marbles, making official and unofficial meetings with the new UK government of Keith Starmer last autumn.
