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#NadineGordimer: "Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set" - not content with claiming sovereignty over other peoples' countries, the British Empire appropriated the art in which the ethos, history, religious mythology, the fundament of the people is imbued. 3/
...We should start by ceasing to speak of the 'Elgin Marbles'. They are not and never were Lord Elgin's marbles; that is not their provenance. ... They are sections of the Parthenon Marbles that Lord Elgin... had hacked out of the antique frieze in the Parthenon 4/
In terms of origin, the claim is absolute: they belong to Greece. But as representative of the culture of ancient Greece, as the genesis of the ideal of humanism and beauty in art, there is also the argument that the Parthenon frieze belongs to world culture..5/
