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Gallery: Parthenon Marbles

Only a month ago I perused the exquisite Parthenon marbles at the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, together with the Harvard Centre for Hellenic Studies study-group led by Professor Gregory Nagy. Now I stand before the marbles at the Duveen Gallery in the British Museum. The familiar feeling of awe at these sculptures and reliefs overcomes me, and my family witnesses an unusually ecstatic Dad prancing around the gallery as… Read more