After we had introduced ourselves, I expanded on what I had previously written them--that I wanted to find whatever I could about Lord Elgin's taking of the Parthenon marbles during the first decade of the nineteenth century. Within minutes we set off for the archives of the Ottoman Empire...
Museum of the Acropolis, a few fragments of the Parthenon that Lord Elgin left in Athens. A beautiful view of the sunset from the Temple of Nike over Bay of Phaleronland island of XXX(Salamis?) “Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be seen,Along Morea’a hills the setting sun;Not ...