The Parthenon Marbles Should Not be Returned to Greece

There are no good arguments for repatriation

Dull is the eye that will not weep to see
Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed
By British hands, which it had best behoved
To guard those relics ne'er to be restored.

— Lord Byron, 1812.

Tell my man, shut up.

— Stormzy, 2017.

I. Introduction

This is the Parthenon:

This, below it, is one of the Parthenon Marbles—currently housed in the British Mu…