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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 7997749, member: 128351&quot;]The Elgin Marbles are reclaimed by Greece since the 1840s. Yes at that time Greece was surely broke, as she is today and as she has always been (in Hellenistic times Athens depended on Egyptian aid to feed her people). But you just cannot say Greece demands the return of these masterpieces as a distraction. Elgin did not honestly buy them, everything in his undertaking was questionable. It has been considered a shame by many people as soon as the early 1800s, even in England. I can quote some verses from Lord Byron&#039;s <i>Childe Harold</i> :</p><p>&quot;Dull is the eye that will not weep to see</p><p>Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed</p><p>By British hands, which it had best behoved</p><p>To guard those relics ne&#039;er to be restored.</p><p>Curst be the hour when from their isle they roved,</p><p>And once again thy hapless bosom gored,</p><p>And snatch&#039;d thy shrinking gods to northern climes abhorred!&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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