Greeks lobby for return of Parthenon marbles to Athens

Greece has been engaged in a long dispute over some of the worlds most famous sculptures. The sculptures were taken from the Parthenon almost 200 years ago and brought to Britain, and the Greeks argue they should be returned to Athens.
Worldfocus special correspondent Lynn Sherr and producer Megan Thompson report on Greeces efforts to recover the precious statues.

http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/09/15/greeks-lobby-for-return-of-parthenon-ma...

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• Acropolis Museum
• Greece
• Lynn Sherr
• Megan Thompson
• Parthenon
• Preserving History

[maraki144]

shame on you saying these words! these are our legacy. not just a piece of marble in order to gain money as the british museum does...and please, tell me how many of the exhibits in these museum refer to your civilization??? stop talking about somethihg that belongs to the Greeks........

[quarzs73]

India should nuke UK. Britons are plunderer bastards ...

[MrAugustus88]

Samaras the gay mf betrayed his party Nea Dimokratia and assisted the fashist Pasok to gain power. Second the building is a modern piece of crap, it is not a classic building. Thirdy the parthenon is no great deal, it is nothing compared to classic Hellas ie 30BC-180AD.

[EllinMK]

@wordblender why the hell do you mean i am full of hate for everything wich is not Greek? The marbles are Greek,thats a fact, and they were stollen and we want them back. So what is wrong at it? Why are you that angry?Do you know somrthing? Greece has been occuped more than one time ,from turks,from Bulgars,from Germans and many many more. So what is wrong now if the simple Greek wants something of his identity back?Just because my politicians are corrupt does that mean i am same?without right?

[wordblender]

@EllinMK Look at your own attitude. You are full of hate against everything which is not Greek since you want to promote the pure Greekness which in your view is possessed in material things produced by ancient civilizations to which as you imagine you belong. That makes you in your eyes better than the rest of the world is since other never built such great civilization like "yours". Bullshit.

[EllinMK]

@wordblender Look mate..now honestly. I really know i said bad thinks to you and i apologize for all. You try to understand the simple Greek please. We dont attack any other nations or ideologys or personalitys. We defend whats ours and yes we get really mad if someone attack us...and somehow that was the case between us two. Maybe i misunderstood you..i dont know.And its not funny if others make bad comments...we heard a lot last year.

Please mate...peace

Regards,Georgios

[EllinMK]

@wordblender And of course you are Anti-Hellenic! You wouldnt spend your time to blame Greeks in every YT video if you were not Anti-Hellenic. And before you talk you shouldnt forget it was YOUR country Chechoslovakia wich is devided.Doesnt that has something with huge Nationalistic feelings of Chechs and Slovacs? I really dont understand you what do you want and why you doing that mate?I mean your hate for Greece.Does any Greek did something bad to you?I hope not but if yes..i am really sorry!

[EllinMK]

@wordblender Wow wow wow...why did i knew that? LOL.S i am asking you again:what does the economic crysis have to do with the stollen marbles?NOTHING.And who of both of us is doing assumptions?Blaming me and every single/simple Greek for corruption?Do you think you Sudeten-Nazin should/could tell us something about our politicians?NO! Because we know them.But do you Nazi Pig know yours?Not that i care,because thats out of my bussines,but before you blame others you better look at yourself

[wordblender]

@EllinMK Besides I was born in Sudetenland you dump head. I know everything about its history. So sod off.

[wordblender]

@EllinMK I suggest you read something about the connection between heritage and the power of a nation-state who use it to promote and assert itself against its own minorities.

[wordblender]

@EllinMK I'm telling you I'm not British. Since you're little brain cannot imagine that someone from a nation uninterested on this dispute can speak against Greece, it proves that mainly your thinking is based on nationalism. Greece is a corrupt state which only expects everyone else to pay for its debts and that's where the other states become threatened. I don't have to read any book on Nazi history since I already study History full time.

[EllinMK]

@wordblender And you also say our history means nothing and its not prooven in itself? Well mate...do you maybe still live in stoneage? Read a book Sudeten Nazi