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The British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles (BCRPM) is a group of British people who support the return of the Parthenon (Elgin) marbles to
Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...
,
Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...
. The Committee was established in 1983. Current members include Dame
Janet Suzman Dame Janet Suzman (born 9 February 1939) is a South African-born British actress who had a successful early career in the Royal Shakespeare Company, later replaying many Shakespearean roles on television. In her first film, '' Nicholas and Alexa ...
(chairperson) and professors
Anthony Snodgrass Anthony McElrea Snodgrass FBA (born 7 July 1934) is an academic and archaeologist noted for his work on Archaic Greece. Biography Born to William McElrea and Kathleen (Owen) Snodgrass, he gained his M.A. and D.Phil in 1963. He is Emeritus Profe ...
(honorary president),
Paul Cartledge Paul Anthony Cartledge (born 24 March 1947)"CARTLEDGE, Prof. Paul Anthony", ''Who's Who 2010'', A & C Black, 2010online edition/ref> is a British ancient historian and academic. From 2008 to 2014 he was the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek ...
(Vice-Chair), and
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Andrew Frederic Wallace-Hadrill, (born 29 July 1951) is a British Ancient history, ancient historian, classical archaeologist, and academic. He is Professor of Roman Studies and Director of Research in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambr ...
.


Further reading

* Tom Flynn, The Universal Museum (Lulu, 2012) *
Christopher Hitchens Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British and American author and journalist. He was the author of Christopher Hitchens bibliography, 18 books on faith, religion, culture, politics, and literature. He was born ...
, ''The Parthenon Marbles: A Case for Reunification'' (with a preface by Nadine Gordimer and essays by Robert Browning and Charalambos Bouras) (Verso, May 2008) *
Dorothy King Dorothy Louise Victoria Lobel King (born 1975) is an American author who lives and works in England. Childhood and education King was born and raised in London where her American father, James King, ran a branch of Oppenheimer & Co. She spent ...
, '' The Elgin Marbles'' (Hutchinson, January 2006) * Mary Beard, ''The Parthenon'' (Profile Books, 2004) * Jeanette Greenfield, ''The Return of Cultural Treasures'' (Cambridge University Press 2007) * Ian Jenkins, ''The Parthenon Frieze'' (British Museum Press, 2002) *
William St Clair William Linn St Clair, (7 December 1937 – 30 June 2021) was a British historian, senior research fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and author. Biography William St Clair received ...
, ''Lord Elgin and the Marbles'' (Oxford University Press, 1998) *
Catharine Titi Catharine Titi ( Greek: ''Κατερίνα Τιτή'', Katerina Titi) is an international lawyer and research associate professor at the Paris-based French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Biography She decided to study law at a y ...
, ''The Parthenon Marbles and International Law'' (Springer, 2023)


See also

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Acropolis Museum The Acropolis Museum (, ''Mouseio Akropolis'') is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found on the rock and on the surrounding slope ...
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Parthenon The Parthenon (; ; ) is a former Ancient Greek temple, temple on the Acropolis of Athens, Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the Greek gods, goddess Athena. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of c ...
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Elgin Marbles The Elgin Marbles ( ) are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens, removed from Ottoman Greece in the early 19th century and shipped to Britain by agents of Thomas Bruce, 7 ...


References

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External links


Official Web Site

Acropolis Museum, Athens

The British Museum Parthenon pages

The Adair Letter
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Organisations that support the cause


Melina Mercouri Foundation

''Bring Them Back'' (youtube video)

Acropolis of Athens
Art and cultural repatriation Organizations established in 1983 Cultural organisations based in the United Kingdom Greece–United Kingdom relations Elgin Marbles