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Sunday 4 March 2012

Pericles: “I’m Greek and I Wanna Go Home” (video)

Pericles: “I’m Greek and I Wanna Go Home” (video)

Posted by keeptalkinggreece
 ”I am Greek and Wanna Go Home” is the title of a video that goes around the internet. With reference to the stolen marbles of Acropolis, music-composer and photographer Ares Kalogeropoulos created a visual appeal for the return of the priceless marbles currently in the British Museum in London. “You can steal a statue, but you can not steal my identity” the the slogan.


The Parthenon Marbles  forming a part of the collection known as the Elgin Marbles  are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures (mostly by Phidias and his pupils), inscriptions and architectural members that originally were part of the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens. Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799–1803, obtained a controversial permit from the Ottoman authorities to remove pieces from the Acropolis
The purpose of this video action is the return of Greek antiquities illegally detained abroad. In the video including Pericles appears with the message “I’m Greek and I wanna go home.”
“The touching message goes around the internet and reminds us how proud we are of our culture.” (mediagate.gr)
Watch Video:

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Ares Kalogeropoulos live in Germany.
PS To tell you the truth, when I read the title “Pericles: I am Greek and I wanna go home” I thought, it was a hint that democracy should finally return to Greece :) . Pericles, an Athenian statesman, fostered democracy to such extreme that his enemie blames him for populism…
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous5 March 2012 at 01:03

    The marble bust of Pericles is a 2nd century Roman copy, comes from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli near Rome, was never in Greece and is part of the Townley collection not Elgin's.

    If Greeks sincerely believe the marbles collected by Elgin are "illegally detained abroad" then why last year was the Palermo Fragment returned to Italy?

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  2. Anonymous10 March 2012 at 02:43

    It's pointless for you to try and argue this point. The Greek masterpieces were stolen, however you want to spin it, and they belong to Greece. Period.
    The British Museum is supporting a disgusting crime by keeping the Parthenon Marbles hostage. The ethical thing to do is return them to their home instead of trying to justify this appalling act.

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  3. Anonymous10 March 2012 at 03:59

    Actually many distinguished scholars on an international level have challenged the legality of the acquisition of the statues. Evidence that even Ottoman officials questioned it. Lord Byron was one of the harshest critics of Elgin's acts.

    But most importantly, the UN General Assembly has had several international conferences  around the "Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin". Recalling for the protection of cultural property, prohibiting illicit import, export and transfer of ownership of cultural property, and further acknowledgment and recognition of statutes based around cultural heritage: http://unbisnet.un.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=118346044UO86.10016&menu=search&aspect=power&npp=50&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=bibga&ri=1&source=%7E%21horizon&index=.UD&term=a61l15&aspect=power&x=7&y=14#focus

    So in fact it's not just the Greeks who feel the statues are being illegally detained.. it seems the world feels that way.

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    1. Anonymous11 March 2012 at 01:10

      So,if it is sincerely believed the marbles collected by Elgin are "illegally detained abroad" why last year was the Palermo Fragment returned to Italy?

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