Gallery 88-- British Museum

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Marble statue of Dionysos Roman, about AD 40-60 Copy of a Greek original of about 325 BC; said to have been found at Posilipo, Campania, Magna Greacia

"I am in love with Carayatis, the girl who is gone from home...N.Papazoglou"

The Elgin Marbles, known also as the Parthenon Marbles, are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures, inscriptions and architectural members that originally were part of the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens

From 1801 to 1812 Elgin's agents removed about half of the surviving sculptures of the Parthenon, as well as architectural members and sculpture from the Propylaea and Erechtheum.

The Acropolis was besieged twice during the Greek War of Independence, once by the Greek and once by the Ottoman forces. During the siege the Greeks were aware of the dilemma and chose to offer the besieged Ottoman forces, who were attempting to melt the lead in the columns to cast bullets, bullets of their own if they would leave the Parthenon undamage

Metope from the Elgin marbles depicting a Centaur and a Lapith fighting

The British Museum, Room 18 - Parthenon Galleries, Temple of Athena Parthenos (447-438 B.C.)

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