The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.

Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum, London Photograph by Josse/Scala, Florence In 1687, during a war fought between Venice and the Ottomans, the great monument was ...

and marveled at the designs of Phidias and the new Parthenon. Athens had become the school of Greece. Pericles' was by now far too popular for his rivals to topple him as the city's leader.

5, No. 1, Mar., 1889 The Newly Discovered Head of Iris from t... The Newly Discovered Head of Iris from the Frieze of the Parthenon This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.

"The whole international discussion about the return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece has resumed, thanks also to Italy".

Q: The sculptures within the Parthenon also seem to clearly pay tribute to the human form. Hurwit: Yes, and to the Athenians in particular. I think this is best expressed in the frieze that ...

Carlsruhe and Copenhagen have pieces of Parthenon metope slabs from the Doric frieze of the temple. Dr. Jan Six, the son of the Amsterdam medalist, and a descendant of Rembrandt's familiar ...