Yet even as the Grand Tour became increasingly popular, laying the foundations for modern tourism, this great monument, studded with the work of the great Athenian sculptor Phidias, was at risk of ...

He notes that Pericles' contemporaries criticized Phidias because his sculptures seemed overly naturalistic, and that Phidias chose to depict even the gods as ordinary human beings. He emphasizes ...

"We all understand that the Sculptures belong here and must return to Greece. And we should do this so that we can be proud of something." ...