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Essay by Prof. Charalambos Bouras, Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments
The opening of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens in spring 2008 provides the opportunity to re-state the case for the return of the Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles) to Athens. The British Museum’s long-standing objection that there is nowhere in Athens to house the Parthenon Marbles is answered in emphatic style. Meanwhile, decisions concerning the restitution of cultural artefacts are increasingly recognized as of national importance, and are no longer left solely to curators and museum directors. With new contributions from leading authorities, this new edition of Christopher Hitchens’ elegantly argued and characteristically forthright book will make a powerful contribution to ensuring that the Parthenon Marbles return to their place of origin.
Christopher Hitchens lives in Washington, D.C. and writes for Slate and the Daily Mirror and is contributing editor to The Atlantic Monthly and Vanity Fair.
Publication
March 1998
2d edn: April 2008
192 pages
4 b/w illustrations
Paper
ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 252 3
£11.99 / US$19.95 / CAN$22
Other Verso books by
Christopher Hitchens:
Unacknowledged
Legislation: Writers in the
Public
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger
No One Left to Lie To:
The Values of the Worst
Family
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports