Word: elgin
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...usurper of those jewels, Lord Elgin, was not content with many masterpieces alone, but tore away and transported to England one of the six caryatids and one of the six columns of the eastern portico of the Erechtheum." The writer bitterly asks the British Government to restore these two pieces, adding that he knows it would be useless to claim the heart of the collection...
...engaged in the practice of law in Chicago. . . . Mr. Morgan was interested in the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway, known as the Outer Belt Line of Chicago. . . . Having information which was not in possession of Mr. Morgan or his legal staff, I saw instantly that his plan would not work. 'You can't do that under the law,' I explained. 'I don't hire lawyers to tell me what I can't do,' was Mr. Morgan's [famed] report. 'I hire them to tell me how to do what I want them...
Thus was Keats inspired to sing when for the first time he saw the Elgin marbles. What must have been their glory when, not as now battered and broken by time and fortune, they adorned the Parthenon, that great temple of the Acropolis which enshrined the gold and ivory statue of Athena...
...make any strong statement of protest against the project, for the Greeks have the ambition and the cement, and they can probably do a pretty decent job of restoration, if they don't lose interest and start a war. But the main trouble is they haven't got the Elgin marbles, the Parthenon's most distinctive ornaments...
These famous reliefs were taken by a certain Elgin in a spirit of archaelogical camaraderie to the British Museum where they have remained ever since. Nobody can see them, of course, because it is too dark and dusty inside, but they are in a good safe place and everybody knows where to find them. The Greeks feel that properly to restore the Parthenon they should have the marbles, which is quite illogical from an English point of view and for that matter quite impractical from any point of view...