Prospects for co-operation between the British Museum and the new Acropolis museum are ‘impossible’ unless the Parthenon Marbles are returned to Greece, says eminent classics professor Anthony Snodgrass.
Professor Snodgrass, emeritus professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University said that a call by British Museum director Neil MacGregor for the Greek and British governments can work together so that the Parthenon sculptures can be seen in China and Africa “is quite impossible to settle without reuniting the sculptures where they belong.”
Professor Snodgrass, who is chairman of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles added,” Only then can the possibilities for the transmission of the sculptures to other countries, whether physical or virtual, be seriously discussed,”
The committee added that a recent poll showed that 94% of respondents wished to see the Marbles returned to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens.