Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Parthenon MarblesCondition: NewEAN: 9781844672523ISBN: 9781844672523Publisher: Verso BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/17/2008Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 130mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 212gAuthor: Christopher HitchensLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Case for ReunificationISBN-10: 1844672522Description: The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then ambassador to the Turkish government, had chunks of the frieze sawn off and shipped to England, where they were subsequently seized by Parliament and sold to the British Museum to help pay off his debts.This scandal, exacerbated by the inept handling of the sculptures by their self-appointed guardians, remains unresolved to this day. In his fierce, eloquent account of a shameful piece of British imperial history, Christopher Hitchens makes the moral, artistic, legal and political case for re-unifying the Parthenon frieze in Athens.The opening of the New Acropolis Museum emphatically trumps the British Museum's long-standing (if always questionable) objection that there is nowhere in Athens to house the Parthenon Marbles. With contributions by Nadine Gordimer and Professor Charalambos Bouras, The Parthenon Marbles will surely end all arguments about where these great treasures belong, and help bring a two-centuries-old disgrace to a just conclusion.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBContributor: Robert Browning (Contributions by), Nadine Gordimer (Preface by), Charalamabos Bouras (Contributions by)Genre: Language & ReferenceTopic: Arts & PhotographyType: TextbookRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Parthenon Marbles
Title: The Parthenon Marbles
EAN: 9781844672523
ISBN: 9781844672523
Release Date: 04/17/2008
Release Year: 2008
Subtitle: The Case for Reunification
ISBN-10: 1844672522
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Contributor: Charalamabos Bouras (Contributions by)
Type: Textbook
Edition: 3
Book Title: Parthenon Marbles : the Case for Reunification
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Item Height: 0.3 in
Publication Year: 2008
Topic: Archaeology, Art & Politics, History / Ancient & Classical, Criminology
Illustrator: Yes
Features: Revised
Genre: Art, Social Science
Item Weight: 7.1 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Christopher Hitchens
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
