Nazi help Brits find morality again?

[Bereta_Eder]

they're so used to be spit upon that when they hear a compliment they cant recognize it

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by MarkG
what does the actions of an occupying force (the turks) have to do with anything?

Athens wasn't occupied. The Greeks revolted against the Venetians to get the Ottomans back. Unfortunately for the Greeks, the Venetians marched three quarters of the city off at gunpoint. You should be a lot more grateful to your saviors.

[Drake Tungsten]

the one time i compliment americans and still they cant agree with me...

That was supposed to be a compliment?!

[DeathByTheSword]

if you perfect something (what ever it is) for that something it is a step forward...thus can be seen as a compliment if someone prefected something

[Drake Tungsten]

I doubt anyone considers perfecting stealing, warmongering and repression to be a good thing, so your claim that it was a compliment is rather silly...

[DeathByTheSword]

according to americans all euro people all atleast silly most of the time worse so i dont really feel that your post has any effect on me.

[Alexander's Horse]

There's been a movement in Australia to return culturally significant artefacts and human remains to aboriginal people for some time now.

Taking some of the artefacts was quite a deliberate form of cultural genocide.

Some of the objects are so sacred to aboriginal tribes they can't even tell anyone what they are.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The Greeks revolted against the Venetians to get the Ottomans back.

what are you drinking when you read history books and why dont you share it with us?

[Bereta_Eder]

the thing with the sculptures of parthenon bascially started in 1980's (not since the 19th century as the article says) with melina mercouri (never on a sunday?) and it has built up ever since. it's recent.

so the article has errors. that is why I dont know if i should trust what it says about the british museum having a law that specifically prohibits it from returning anything (it will be left with nothing, i understand).

but it would be interesting to know if indeed there is such a law.
now that i think about it it might be.
because there was a close negotiation for a "loan" of the sculptures (which is not "giving") from the british musem to athens.

[MarkG]

we should have them on a short-term loan, 100 years or so will be fine

[C0ckney]

how about we just keep them on display, you're welcome to come and look at them any time you like.

[Bereta_Eder]

that's too easy

[C0ckney]

that's ok, we don't mind.

[Bereta_Eder]

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by MarkG
we should have them on a short-term loan, 100 years or so will be fine

You'll only crush them up and build goat sheds with them or stick them in a dung heap.


" In 1801 the Cambridge professor E. D. Clarke visited the village of Eleusis near Athens, once the site of an important sanctuary dedicated to Demeter, the Greek goddess of corn and fertility. He observed this statue “in the midst of a heap of dung, buried as high as the neck,” and went on to explain that “the inhabitants of the village still regard [it] with a very high degree of veneration. They attributed to its presence the fertility of the land, and it was for this reason that they heaped around it the manure intended for their fields.” "

http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/pharos/collection_pages/ancient_pages/GR.1.1865/TXT_SE-GR.1.1865.html

Of course dung heaps have an ancient noble history in Greece:

" As Odysseus was returning to his house he was recognised by his old dog Argos lying by the front door in the deep dung of mules and kine, whereof an ample bed was spread before the doors, till the thralls of Odysseus should carry it away to dung therewith his wide demesne. " (Book XVII)

The King of Ithaca had a compost pile by his front door. The maids in the house probably made it a daily ritual to add all waste to this pile. "

http://www.fjkluth.com/daily.html