Chapter 47 Elgin in British Writings

Elgin in British Writings Two days ago, I talked about his family background from the Elgin Street near Caine Road, which commemorates Elgin, The conversation got farther and farther, and I couldn't stop, so I had to expose his family's predatory family history rashly.pointing out now A group of ancient Greek sculptures collected by the British Museum in London, it is his uncle who made the ancient Greek Pantheon in Athens Smuggled back after the traces were demolished.At that time, there were quite a few reasonable British people who were not interested in Earl Elgin's kindness.

Illegal acts of destroying cultural relics in other countries have been condemned.The great poet Byron wrote the inscription on the scene In addition to accusing him, he later wrote several poems condemning Ergin's barbaric behavior, one of which was The first title is "The Curse of Minerva", through the mouth of the goddess of literature and art in Greek mythology, to Ergin Da Add a curse: "The person who deals with this matter first. My curse will fall on him and his descendants. They will have no spark of wisdom, and all their children will be as ignorant as their elders

same as child". I don't know how to translate poetry, so I can't help but be unable to translate the righteous indignation of this great British romantic poet on this matter. That's the general idea.At that time, Byron was in order to aid the Greek National Liberation War, and he did not hesitate to go bankrupt. Funding the Greek rebels, even at the expense of his own life (Byron later died in the Greek army of).Therefore, when he saw Elgin's crime of destroying Greek monuments in Athens, he was not indignant. In another poem, in the style of a romantic poet, he appeals to the goddess of Athens to punish those who destroy her temples.

but please be careful not to blame the wrong person, real "English" people don't do such things Yes, the man who did it was an "English" but a "Scottish"! At that time, Elgin not only arbitrarily removed these ancient Greek sculptures from the Athens Pantheon, but also The status of "British Ambassador" relies on the edict of the Turkish emperor as a talisman, and no one else is allowed to get involved.According to the United States Ms. Guolan said in Chapter 7 of her book "The Plunder of Art": At that time, there was an English tourist,

He wanted to pick up some fragments of Greek carvings on the spot and take them back as souvenirs, but was stopped. This person wrote back to the UK Guo told his friend: "Because of the prohibition issued by our ambassador against such items, except when transported to his Nothing is allowed to move outside of the warehouse where it goes, so I can't pick it up.it seems i Our ambassadors have seized every piece of carving found. " Another British traveler spoke even more poignantly.He said: Witnessing the dismemberment of the Pantheon, It's an unspeakable shame.It's a pain in retrospect, these human geniuses

The masterpiece, after more than 2,000 years of vicissitudes, has survived many alien and barbaric aggressions, and now But in the end they couldn't escape the fate of being completely destroyed! This is the crime of Elgin ancestors who burned down our Old Summer Palace described by the British themselves.