Nomadpossum 🐟🇬🇷 🇦🇺 ‘Dull is the eye that will not weep to see
Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed
By British hands.’

Lord Byron

🌍 April 18 - International Day of Monuments and Sites 2024
🆓 Free entry to the archaeological sites and monuments of Greece #IDMS2024 #Greece 👇

I am giving a talk on 3 May in Cambridge (open to all, free but please register: tinyurl.com/3bnyczrt). It includes one of my favourite cartoon ('Boy who breathed on the Glass in the BM'), but takes a different direction from other talks... to justifying humanities etc.

In Missolonghi, where one feels Byron’s presence in every corner.

'And now I give her my life” - The death of Lord Byron and the birth of Modern Greece, Professor Anna Barker👇

parthenonuk.com/news/articles-…

#LordByron #Greece

🎥The 6️⃣th edition of #InShortFilmFestival Europe #bestofthebest is just around the corner! Excited for 🇬🇷 Short Film participation, with the Piece of Liberty by Antigoni Kapaka.
🕖📍20-21 April – Glasgow Film Festival
🕖📍26-28 April – Institut français UK
EUNIC LONDON EU Delegation UK

🔥 The Olympic flame was lit today at the Games' birthplace, in ancient Olympia, #Greece , and is on its way to #France for Paris 2024

A symbol of peace and friendship between peoples, the flame will now be carried through 🇬🇷 and 🇫🇷 by thousands of torchbearers

French Embassy UK🇫🇷🇪🇺

When Scotland has pretensions to be the Athens of the North.

One guess who was the brain child behind it? No really, not the same Earl of Elgin who stole the marbles…… surely not?!?!

Obituary | Mar Dixon, 1971-2024

A self-styled troublemaker and groundbreaking force on social media, Mar helped to usher in a new, more open way for museums to interact with their audiences.

Read: ow.ly/ZqXl50Re6x0

Dubious rogueclassicist ~ david meadows Each request deserves and should be considered on a case by case basis. There are 8 million artefacts in the BM (10%, a fraction is on display), + formal requests made to the BM are few dispelling ludicrous fear of 'floodgates' and the denuding of museums

Sad to see Robert Jenrick article on the #Parthenon Marbles is based on the same self-serving pamphlet written by a syphilitic Elgin whilst in self imposed exile in Paris: because his contemporaries had shunned from polite society for despoiling the #Marbles
Remedy based on truth

Professor Stampolidis, General Director of the Acropolis Museum on the Parthenon Marbles and their continued division
parthenonuk.com/latest-news/87…
📷 credit Paris Tavitian

#acropolismuseum #parthenonmarbles #reunitetheparthenonmarbles

British Committee Mark Stephens Kathimerini English Edition Athanasios Katsikidis It would be a great gesture if the next Government were to act speedily to facilitate the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece.

Weird serendipitous thing #4275:
Here’s the Cypriot High Commission, closed today cos 25th March = Greek independence day.
There’s a blue plaque next door for computing whizz Ada Lovelace, whose dad was… Lord Byron, 1 of the biggest supporters of the Greek independence mvmt!

“Outside Athens and Greece any Parthenon Marbles held abroad risk looking like imperial loot without much if any current cultural-political significance.' Kathimerini English Edition Athanasios Katsikidis
parthenonuk.com/latest-news/87…
#reunitetheparthenonmarbles #timeisnow #TellTheStory

10 more days to catch this 👇parthenonuk.com/latest-news/87…

#acropolismuseum #museums #exhibition

Blog on abject failure to find Tacitus' Scots, or indeed Romans in Britain on our rain-sodden family holiday in Aberdeenshire, but fun with TV series SUCCESSION and restorative Greek myth and art in the Granite City. British Committee edithorial.blogspot.com/2024/03/greeks…

Welcome to the British Museum's new Director Nicholas Cullinan: 'The fact that our national museums and galleries offer free admission is something we should be proud of and celebrate.' (2016)

Rough draft of a paper “A Human Right to a Human Decision” which was distributed at a workshop in June 2023 held in Oxford. New and improved version coming soon.

academia.edu/116775511/A_Hu…

A lot of hard work and creativity into this Benevoli rediscovery project (made it v easy and lovely to turn up and do some light hollering on the recording). Well-deserved recognition, this.