Returning the Parthenon Marbles to Athens - E.G. Whitlam

A Presentation by the Hon. E.G. Whitlam, former Prime Minister of Australia, delivered to the Art and Law Society, December 8, 2001. I come from Britain's largest colony in the antipodes. I thank you very much for inviting me from the New World to redress the balance of the Old. In this first year of the Third Millennium of the Christian Era I have to survey the last two and a half millennia of European civilisation. In 480 BC the Persians under Xerxes I invaded Greece. The Greek army was commanded… More information...

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