Extract from a speech at the Protypo Peiramatiko Gymnasio of University of Macedonia. 15/10/2014

by niktheo | March 11, 2015 4:03 pm

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On 15th  April 1802,  Mary Elgin , wife of Lord Elgin,  writes in  her diary that a Greek worker  confessed to  her that as they were removing the statues from their places, they  heard  them weeping .

On 30th  April 1802 she writes that along with another Greek worker, they  carried secretly  the head of a statue and hid it in Parnitha. Considering this as the only good action of her life, she mentions it a lot of times,  not only in her diary but in the letters to her lover  Robert Ferguson as well.

(Source: ‘Beyond time’, Sally Emerson (Oceanida)

 E.F.

 

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