Responding to the British Museum's initiative to send one of the Parthenon Marbles statues to Russia on a loan, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Friday that the decision «was an affront to the Greek people."
"The British dogma according to which the Parthenon Marbles are immovable is no longer applicable,» Samaras said, noting that the argument had been contested in the past by the construction of Athens' Acropolis Museum in response to British authorities' claim that the Greeks' have no acceptable venue for hosting the Marbles.
The premier concluded his statement by saying that, «the Parthenon and its sculptures were looted» and that the sculptures' value was «inestimable."
The sculpture of the Greek river god Ilissos, a reclining male figure, is to be displayed in Russia's State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg from Saturday until January 18 to celebrate the museum's 250th anniversary.
Photo: Visitors stand in front of the marble sculpture of the river god Ilissos at the exhibition on Greek art in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Friday.
"The British dogma according to which the Parthenon Marbles are immovable is no longer applicable,» Samaras said, noting that the argument had been contested in the past by the construction of Athens' Acropolis Museum in response to British authorities' claim that the Greeks' have no acceptable venue for hosting the Marbles.
The premier concluded his statement by saying that, «the Parthenon and its sculptures were looted» and that the sculptures' value was «inestimable."
The sculpture of the Greek river god Ilissos, a reclining male figure, is to be displayed in Russia's State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg from Saturday until January 18 to celebrate the museum's 250th anniversary.
Photo: Visitors stand in front of the marble sculpture of the river god Ilissos at the exhibition on Greek art in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Friday.
Source:
ekathimerini.com , Friday December 5, 2014
ekathimerini.com , Friday December 5, 2014
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_05/12/2014_545175
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