This metope, stolen from the Parthenon, exhibited at the British Museum, in person, has a wonderful little detail. When I walked to its right hand side, there was a hand wrapped around the back of the centaur's head. Just a neat extra, that if I hadn't seen it in person, I wouldn't have known existed.
I was annoyed by a guard when I asked her where the Elgin Marbles were. She responded, "We don't refer to them as the "Elgin Marbles," because that is an inaccurate description for two reasons. They are not longer in Scottland, in Lord Elgin's collection, and it's a little embarrassing to call them that. We call them by the name the 'Parthenon Marbles.'"
As I walked away from her, I whispered to Valerie, "If they are so embarrassed, why don't they give them back?"
Athena "lost her marbles" when the Scottish/British ambassador got permission from Turkey, which had conquered Greece, to remove the sculptures, bring them to his Scottish mansion and placed them as decorations on his home.
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