Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Historian David Starkey gives his view on the Elgin Marbles debate" video.

  1. A pity that Hitchens' actual knowledge of European history was either so incomplete or so skewed by prejudice.
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  2. Perhaps Mary Beard should be asked for her current opinion about 'Beachy Head Woman?' That would be an interesting interview.
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  3.  @aacmove  What is?
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  4.  @aacmove  What religious rant?
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  5.  @AminTheMystic  'And none of it needed to be hacked off.' Perhaps you are simply unaware of the circumstances of the time. Greece was a province of the Ottoman Empire, which cared little about the Parthenon or the sculptures on it, which were being broken up fro use as hard core. Had Elgin not acted as he did, the problem, would not have existed. Neither would the Marbles.
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