@article{1468297,
      recid = {1468297},
      author = {Titi, Catharine,},
      title = {The Parthenon marbles and international law /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {The Parthenon marbles case is the most famous  international cultural heritage dispute concerning  repatriation of looted antiquities, the Parthenon marbles  in the British Museums Elgin Collection. The case has  polarised observers ever since Elgin had the marbles hacked  out of the ancient temple at the turn of the 19th century  in Ottoman-occupied Athens. In 1816, a debt-stricken Elgin  sold the marbles to the British government, which  subsequently entrusted them to the British Museum, where  they have remained since then. Much ink has been spilled on  the Parthenon marbles. The ethical and cultural merits of  their repatriation have been fiercely debated for years.  But what has generally not been considered are the legal  merits of their return in light of contemporary  international law. This book is the first in legal  scholarship to provide an international law perspective of  the cause clbre of international cultural heritage disputes  and, in doing so, to clarify the new customary  international law on the return of cultural property  unlawfully removed from its original context. The book is a  unique reference work on the legal case for the return of  the Parthenon marbles and the new normative framework for  the protection of cultural heritage. This is a book that  must be read with attention by all parties to this debate;  and it is my hope and belief that it will accelerate the  process by which an art-loving and philhellenic Britain  finds a consensual way to return to its ancient ally a  collection of broken and decontextualised fragments which  illuminate a moment two and a half millennia ago when the  city that pioneered democracy created a monument of  transcendent beauty which embodied the values that inspire  us still. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Emeritus Professor and  Director of Research, Faculty of Classics, University of  Cambridge Catharine Titi, a brilliant Greek academic lawyer  based in Paris, has written a superb, entirely fresh  account of the seemingly interminable Elgin Marbles  controversy. Cutting through the swathes of ideological  obfuscation, she patiently and incontrovertibly  demonstrates just how shaky in international law is the UKs  case not alone for retention but even for the original  possession let alone ownership of the Sculptures held in  the British Museum. Paul Cartledge, AG Leventis Professor  of Greek Culture emeritus, University of Cambridge.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1468297},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26357-6},
}