Reflections on the Acropolis

Welcome to the AcropolisofAthens.gr Reflections Book! Here you can post your reflections and impressions of the Acropolis and the Parthenon, and express your views about the reunification of the Acropolis sculptures in the Acropolis Museum in Athens! Is it a paragraph? Is it a poem? Visiting the Sacred Hill is only the start. Thank you for telling everyone about your discovery!

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15 July 2009

Carina Svensson

Yassou from Sweden !

I will soon have the opportunity to visit Athens during a cruise from Venice later in July and really look forward to visit the Acropolis with its impressing building Parthenon! It's a dream for many years, it's like an "inner urge". I don't know why really, maybe it's an old memory from a pas life… I have been before to both Ephesus in Turkey and the Giza Pyramids and this would make it complete in some way... as visiting so many "Wonders of the World" as possible.

The Parthenon is a major and important building in our common history. For all people in the world.

Therefore I'm sad to hear that the British museum does not respect and understand your urge to get everything in complete, such as having all artefacts that belong to Greece history in its place.

So over to my idea . . . Wouldn't it be a good advice to start some sort of petition at your website ?

I am a member of Oceana ( http://www.oceana.org/) since a couple of years and have found that they have a very good service for the members to take action in a very concrete way protecting the oceans, by filling in and sign a "prepared" petion, like this one:

http://takeaction.oceana.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25178

Wouldn't it be a good idea for you to do something like that ? ( promise you, I would sign it right away !)

To be honest, I am tired of some countries arrogance and selfishness like in this case, "stealing and keeping other countries historical artefacts and thereby removing important information of that countries own history.

Really wonder how Great Britain would react if someone should steal one of the stones from Stonehenge. What do you think? ;-)

The Kindest regards from Carina Svensson

P.S I am also aware of that fact that British museum is keeping the original piece of the famous and important Rosetta Stone. A stone which has solved a lot of problems in translating very old scripts around Europe and middle East. And then letting the Cairo museum only have the copy of it!
How arrogant isn't that? ;-)

21 June 2009

Amalia Gherbasi

In a week I shall be in Athens in the Acropolis and I am regretting not to see all the old monuments, because they are in London. I wish, they were now in Greece and that I could see it now in the new Museum.

[in German:]

In einer Woche werde ich in Athen,in die Akropolis ankommen, und ich bin bedauer die alten Denkmal nicht zu sehen, weil sie in London sind. Ich möchte sie nun in Griechenland wären und ich konnte in dem neuen Museum betrachten-

20 June 2009

Lord Byron

9 December 2007

Pablo Quevedo, Chile

Estuve en la Acropolis y me encanto, es sencillamente un lugar que supera toda expectativa, ver esos edificios maravillosos, y descubrir esos detalles que nos ensenan a los estudiantes de arquitectura es un sueno que nos habla de la fe y las fuertes convicciones de los Atenienses. Es increible que unos hombres tal como nosotros, hayan construido este lugar.

Me parece evidente que los Ingleses debieran devolver cuanto antes las esculturas, marmoles, frisos y todo lo que robaron a su lugar de origen, seria un incentivo a la gete de todo el mundo a conocer con mayor razon este lugar...

Saludos

[English translation:]

I have been in the Acropolis and I love it; it is simply a place beyond all expectations. To see those wonderful buildings, and discover all the details that we study as architecture students. It is a dream that speaks about the faith and the strong convictions of the Athenians. It is amazing that this place had been constructed by men like us.

I think it is obvious that the British should give back the sculptures, marbles and all the things they stole to their original place as soon as possible, that would be an incentive for the people all around the world to visit and learn of this place...

Greetings

9 December 2007

Eirini, Athens, Hellas

This is a GREAT site for a GREAT cause! I really hope that the Ancient Marbles be returned to its rightful HOME!

4 December 2007

Vicky, Athens, Greece

Don't just walk on the hill, looking around... Bring a detailed travel guide with you and discover step by step, stone by stone, all the secrets behind the Acropolis' architecture, design, location. You will be amazed with the minds that conceived this masterpiece...

The British enjoyed the stolen marbles for a very long time... now its time to return them to their homeland!

4 December 2007

Arikana Yuanita, Indonesia

regdecronk.multiply.com
(unique is me)

I saw the Acropolis and the Parthenon and they are the most enchanting ancient marbles buildings complex and sculptures in the world.

Amazing that we could still see the beauty of the past which still exists till now even needs to re-build and also need a big heart from the British who still keep some of the marbles in their land to return them where they belong.

Don't give up to that AIM, unity, belief and keep hard to achieve the AIM by knocking at everyone's heart so that the message can spread through the world and open the British' heart to return the marbles of Parthenon not long.

I am far away, but i do care :)

4 December 2007

Santiago, Galicia, Spain

www.ansuinas.org
(ecology and environment protection)

I think that the Parthenon is the symbol of humanity. A symbol of the most beautiful things we can create, a symbol of unity, inspiration, purity, a mirror of our most bright light. We all have pieces of marble lost in museums around the world. Some museums you can visit just taking a plane, some other are much further than a plane can go. We should all fight to bring together the marbles inside us. To be one with our parthenon and show to the world the perfection of the human creation.
We have the right to be inspired by them. We have the need to claim their return.