UK government’s acquisition of the Marbles
The assertion by the British Museum on its website that the Parthenon Marbles were legally obtained is unproven and unsafe. The BCRPM therefore states on its own website in the name of balance and objectivity that the legality of the UK government’s acquisition of the Marbles remains entirely unproven.

For 200 years the Greeks have been yearning for the return of their marble sculptures taken by England from the Parthenon.

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Supportive Views

"The British Museum could become a truly moral, world Museum of the 21st century, recognising that Athens, having built a home for the Parthenon sculptures, is worthy of exhibiting the surviving fragmented pieces in the Acropolis Museum."
- Dame Janet Suzman

"It would be a good thing if the British Museum gave the 2,500-year-old sculptures back to Greece. Even in England the polling is in favour of returning the marbles."
- George Clooney

"Recognising that what you did in the past isn't always the right thing for the present. You can't justify something now with what took place 200 years ago."
- Victoria Hislop

"If Lord Elgin decided he wanted to put those marbles in Edinburgh at the museums they would have been back years ago. I have no reservations about what's happening and how it is wrong. And it is theft. And those Elgin Marbles should go back to Greece."
- Brian Cox

Case for Return

The Parthenon Gallery in the Acropolis Museum, is the one place on earth where it is possible to experience simultaneously the Parthenon and its missing sculptures.

History of Marbles
The History of the Marbles

For 200 years the Greeks have been yearning for the return of their marble sculptures taken by England from the Parthenon.

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'Prayer on the Acropolis' part of 'The Stones Speak' cultural programme this October at the Acropolis Museum

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The Stones Speak this October at the Acropolis Museum, Athens

A number of masterpieces of ancient Greek theater are revived every week at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, as part of 'The Stones Speak' cultural programme. The theater performances feature texts of Greek ancient literature in three languages – Greek, English, French.

The performances will be held until the end of October 2019  at the Acropolis Museum every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 1pm with free admission.

The ideas and symbols that Greece inherited in humanity and defined the history of thought and art, as well as heroes of the past, all come alive through the 'The Stones Speak' cultural programme. The aim is to highlight the Greek cultural heritage to the maximum including “The Preface to the Odyssey” (in a solo performance), excerpts from Pericles “The Epitaph”, from Sophocles’ “Antigone”, Aristotle’s “Rhetoric”, Palatine Anthology, Plato’s “Symposium” and the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. Especially at the Acropolis Museum will be the “Prayer on the Acropolis” by Ernest Renan.

 

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With the presentation of the events at the Acropolis Museum, 'The Stones Speak' programme completes this year’s events, which began in July with the Byzantine and Christian Museum and continued in September at the Ancient Agora.

The 'The Stones Speak' is in its third year and is now established as an institution for Athens, honoured by the Greek Festival, which included them in its “Opening up to the City” programme.

The production of the 'The Stones Speak' was organized by “Smartconcepts”.

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