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Interesting long read on the Elgin marbles 12:18 - Sep 6 with 651 views

Really interesting read, quite a lot of subtleties I wasn't aware of:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/elgin-marbles-parthenon-sculptures

I apologise that there is a dig at Corbyn in the article, it does however go on to explain why his position is far too simplistic on this issue.

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Interesting long read on the Elgin marbles on 15:07 - Sep 6 with 572 views

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Indeed.

Athens changed hands between the Byzantine Empire and a variety of French and Italian adventurers for a couple of hundred years before the Ottomans took over. The Byzantines had effectively acquired it as successor state to the Eastern Roman Empire in the 5th century. Before the Romans arrived around 100BC, it had been dominated by Macedonian kingdoms, who'd defeated and subjugated the Athenians (as allies of the Thebans) in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338BC. There is no direct line of succession between the ancient Athenian state and the modern Greek nation.

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