Watched a programme on channel 4 last night on the life of Byron (I don't use titles) which was more about Rupert Everet showing off than anything else. Of course Byron who was well liked in South Europe ended up supporting the war of independence in Greece which was at the time (1820) under occupation by the Ottomans. He also had a fight with Elgin who exploited the opportunity that the Greeks as a nation were in huge trouble and stole parts of the Parthenon Marbles something that would today be regarded as direct theft. What remains amazing is the fact that the brigadier trolley types of the British Museum continue to refuse to return what belongs to the Greek nation. I would like to see Greece refusing to hand over the Olympic flame in July 2012 ( which has to come from Olympia in Southern Greece) unless the museum returns the Marbles! I shall be organising that campaign with others soon.
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