A MONUMENT to imperialist plunder, the home-away-from-home of the Elgin marbles, a showcase of booty looted from the four corners of the earth by gangs of marauding dead white gentlemen?
Why, for example, should the BM retain the Parthenon marbles in London?
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Or is he losing his marbles?
Is it still tenable for Britain to refuse demands from Greece for the return of the Elgin Marbles?
"There are no legal grounds for the return of the marbles," averred Harry Tzalas, a historian who first advised Melina Mercouri on the issue.
You can ladle all the meaning on to it you like – and the sight and sound of middle England collectively losing its marbles for a Somali-born, west London-raised man of the people was something to behold – but at its core this was simply an imperious sporting feat.
Related: Parthenon marbles are miracles of sculpture symbolic of Greek nationhood In an about-turn three months after Athens' radical-left Syriza party assumed power, the new Greek cultural minister Nikos Xydakis said the route to retrieving the treasures lay in diplomatic and political channels and not international courts where outcomes were far from assured.
Over the course of the film's 92 minutes, we see the residents of the three camps performing a play, singing songs, playing marbles, preparing balls of dough and engaging in other leisure activities.
Greece has ruled out taking legal action in its battle to reclaim the Parthenon marbles from Britain.
The legal study suggested that Athens make a formal request for the marbles' repatriation before submitting a legal claim to the international court at The Hague if the request was turned down as expected.
