in Front of the Acropolis, the virus is so lying. The Greek government re-opened the Parthenon to visitors and take advantage of this sovereignty found on the miasma in order to claim for the British the marbles of the temple of Athena. An old moon, that shines for over two hundred years the relations between London and Athens. If one has not forgotten the tears of Melina Mercouri, then minister of Culture, visiting in 1983 the hall of the British Museum, which houses the marbles off with the monument of lord Elgin and his men in 1801, is remembered less as lord Byron, died at Missolonghi in....

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