Archaeology Odyssey
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Endnote 3 - Lord Elgin’s Marbles
Endnote 2 - Lord Elgin’s Marbles
Endnote 1 - Lord Elgin’s Marbles
The most complete account of the acquisition of the marbles, based on correspondence between Lord Elgin and his agents in Athens, is by Arthur H. Smith, “Lord Elgin and His Collection,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 36 (1916), pp. 163–372. Very valuable, too, is William St. Clair, Lord Elgin and the Marbles (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1983). See also Jacob Rothenberg, Descensus Ad Terram: The Acquisition and Reception of the Elgin Marbles (New York and London: Garland Publishing Company, 1977).
Endnote 7 - A Different View
Robert R. Stieglitz argues for a 14th-century B.C. date in “The Letters of Kadmos: Mythology, Archaeology, and Eteocretan” (Pepragmena tou d’Diethnous Kr
Endnote 6 - A Different View
Endnote 5 - A Different View
Endnote 4 - A Different View
Endnote 3 - A Different View
Endnote 2 - A Different View
I made a similar argument at symposia on the Greek alphabet at Cornell University in 1979 and at the Institut Française in Athens in 1995. The Athens symposium, organized by the Greek Font Society, were published as Greek Letters from Tablets to Pixels, ed. Michael S. Macrakis (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1996).
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