Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "'Time’ to return Elgin Marbles to Greece: Piers Morgan" video.

It was once, indeed, integral to the Parthenon, but the remaining Frieze is no longer in situ, but was removed some time ago because of pollution damage.
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Ironic that the Grrek PM should use as an argument the Mona Lisa. An artwork created in Italy, now securely locked away in a museum in France.
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A 'colonialist thief' who actually invested a fair proportion of his personal fortune in purchasing the marbles from the governor of the Ottoman province of Greece, after the building upon which they were displayed had been used, at various times over the previous 350 years, as a munitions store and a gunnery practice target, and some of the stonework was being broken up for road fill by an administration which had no interest in artwork not of Islamic origin. Your knee jerk reaction, of 'Someone British did it so it must be wrong' is so tedious.
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@tomfav5540 Insults in Greek are still a poor substitute for answers. Οι προσβολές στα ελληνικά εξακολουθούν να είναι φτωχό υποκατάστατο των απαντήσεων.
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@tomfav5540 'where exactly I did insult you?' You didn't insult me. I don't recall ever suggesting that you did. You did, however, insult someone else.
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@douglasmegson3739 If Slaves may be considered 'part of our heritage' then the Romans certainly did take some. You could add to thhat raw materials from Roman mining, of course.
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@Ancaruin Correct. He paid the administration which had been in situ for over 350 years.
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@byJessCh Elgin paid the administration which had governed Greece for over 350 years, and had de facto control of the items. Perhaps it would have been better had he left them to be broken up by an administration which had no interest in them?
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@FLORA43899 Perhaps you need to do a little reading yourself? There was no 'Greece' at the time, and there had not been one for over 350 years. Elgin purchased the marbles from the accepted government of the Ottoman province, which had no interest in pre-Islamic art and which had allowed them to decay, even using some of them as roadfill. Indeed, the arrival of such wonders in the west resulted in an upsurge in Philhellenism, and thus to the Anglo-French-Russian military expedition which expelled the Ottomans from Greece after they had defeated a Greek revolt. Battle of Navarino, 1827, anyone?
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@Chris.Davidson99836 Elgin had been a Lord since the deathn of his older brother, in 1771. Always a pleasure to educate an ignoramus.
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