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...
Known as the Parthenon Sculptures, they are also called the Elgin Marbles, after the Scottish nobleman Lord Elgin, who stripped them from the ancient Acropolis in Athens in 1801 and sold them to the British government in 1816. For nearly two centuries the sculptures have been housed in the ...
Went first to XXX on top of train, came down the Seine on small steamer to Exposition where we spent the rest of the day. The general effect is not as fine as at Chicago or Omahaw, but some of the buildings and the view across the Bridge are fine. Fine exhibit of laces. August, ...