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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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The Knights, which are modeled after the noble steeds from the Greek Parthenon (Elgin Marbles) are unsurpassed in beauty and craftsmanship.
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Luigi Pascioni,
Auto Mechanic
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Greece is lobbying hard to have the so-called Elgin marbles, Britain's portion of the Parthenon frieze, returned to Athens in time for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games.
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Billie Kirgan,
Machinist
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The Marbles -- the elegant, fragmentary remains of a magnificent frieze that once adorned the Parthenon atop the Acropolis in Athens -- were looted by Britain's Lord Elgin 200 years ago.
See the Elgin Marbles, the Rosetta Stone and Egyptian antiquities.
The Elgin Marbles: What's the Big Deal?
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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The future of the controversial Elgin Marbles will be debated at a Cambridge College, with Fifteen to One presenter William G Stewart among the speakers.
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Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom
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The Elgin Marbles, my personal property, will then be allowed back into the open air, available for deprived school children to use at playtime.
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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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On his own initiative he sent a copy of his text to Lord Elgin together with an annotated catalogue of the inscriptions to be found on the marbles.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Greece sees the staging of the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 as an opportunity to recover the Elgin Marbles and display them in a new museum near the Acropolis.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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The Elgin Marbles are in the British Museum but the Greek government and a number of British MPs are campaigning for the artefacts to be returned.
The Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles - "In these pages you can read about the history of the Parthenon Marbles as well as the points of view of the Greek government, the British government, the British Labour Party and the British Museum.
The Elgin marbles are a collection of ancient Greek sculptures assembled by the 7th earl of Elgin and brought to England in 1812.
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