Comparing 4 editions of Elgin’s Memorandum

THE FOUR EDITIONS OF THE ‘MEMORANDUM ON THE EARL OF ELGIN’S PURSUITS IN GREECE’ In 2002, my dormant and somewhat uninformed interest in the so called ‘Elgin Marbles’ was awakened by the writings of Professor Epaminondas Vranopoulos, who in turn was interested and angered by an anonymous Memorandum used to support Elgin’s bid to sell…

Section 3: Elgin had no authority to rob tombs

Grave Robbers at work. Elgin had no authority to dismantle structures or desecrate graves. Professor Rudenstine’s revelations also confirm what many have already concluded. Namely that whatever the second firman or the purported Italian translation of that letter authorised Elgin or his party to do, it was not to dismantle the structure of the Parthenon,…