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The request for the restitution of the Parthenon Marbles is not made by the Greek government in the name of the Greek nation or of Greek history. It is made in the name of the cultural heritage of the world and with the voice of the mutilated monument itself, that cries out for its marbles to be returned.

Evangelos Venizelos, Greek Minister of Culture

When the Greeks were besieging the Acropolis in 1821, during the war for independence from the Ottoman Empire, word came down that the Turks were destroying the temple to get at the lead clamps so as to make bullets. Kyriakos Pittakis, one of the leaders of the Greek revolution, after conferring with his fellow warriors, had a quantity of lead bullets sent to the Turk defenders so they might stop the destruction of the sacred temple. Bullets they knew full well would be winging their way back to them with fatal results.

If that alone does not show how much the Greeks revere their temple, nothing can.

Send The Marbles Home!

It’s official. Stealing the Marbles will be available in both eBook and treebook format on September 1st, 2010. You can order it direct from Rebel e Publishers, Amazon, Amazon.uk, Barnes and Noble, itunes and mobipocket. I will post links as soon as they become available. In the mean time, explore the site. And please come back once the book is launched so you can join in in my campaign to Send The Marbles Home.