PARTHENON – TEMPLE AND SYMBOL

A seminar at Medelhavsmuseet (the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities) in Stockholm, on Wednesday, 13 September 2023 at 5:30 - 8:00 p.m

• The Parthenon as a symbol - from the Persian and Peloponnesian wars and into our time

Professor Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge), historian and author of a large number of books on antiquity, also Vice-Chair of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles (BCRPM)

• The poet Constantine Cavafy in 1891: "Give back the Elgin Marbles!"

Christina von Arbin, architect and Vice-Chair of the Swedish Parthenon Committee

• The question of reunification - more relevant than ever

Ingemar Lindahl, Ambassador and Chairman of the Swedish Parthenon Committee

• The activities of the British and the International Parthenon Committees

Professor Paul Cartledge, Vice-Chair of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles (BCRPM)

• The Swedish Parthenon Committee 20 years

Christina von Arbin, Vice-Chair of the Swedish Parthenon Committee

• Poetry reading

Kristina Adolphson, actor

This seminar has been arranged in collaboration between the Swedish Parthenon Committee and Medelhavsmuseet, the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden.