Aquí os presento un video donde se resume la historia del Partenón. Es corto y muy interesante, así que no os lo podéis perder. El autor del video es el director de cine Costa Gavras, conocido mundialmente por su compromiso político. Casi al final del video, se recita un poema de Lord Byron en Inglés, que critica lo que pasó con Lord Elgin y "sus mármoles". Se titula la Maldición de Minerva y el recitado empieza en el verso 89.
Os paso el texto en inglés para que lo podáis leer y ,en cuanto pueda, pondré una traducción al castellano. La he estado buscando y no hay manera.
89- “Mortal!”—’twas thus Athenas spake—“that blush of shame
90- Proclaims thee Briton, once a noble name;
91- First of the mighty, foremost of the free,
92- Now honour’d less by all, and least by me;
93- Chief of thy foes shall Pallas still be found.
94- Seek’st thou the cause of loathing?—look around.
95- Lo! here, despite of war and the wasting fire,
96- I saw successive tyrannies expire.
97- ’Scaped from the ravage of the Turk and Goth,
98- Thy country sends a spoiler worse than both.
99- Survey this vacant, violated fane;
100- Recount the relics torn that yet remain:
101- These Cecrops placed, this Pericles adorn’d,
103- What more I owe let gratitude attest—
104- Know, Alaric and Elgin did the rest.
105- That all may learn from whence the plunderer came,
106- The insulted wall sustains his hated name:
109- Be ever hailed with equal honour here
110- The Gothic monarch and the Pictish peer:
111- arms gave the first his right, the last had none,
90- Proclaims thee Briton, once a noble name;
91- First of the mighty, foremost of the free,
92- Now honour’d less by all, and least by me;
93- Chief of thy foes shall Pallas still be found.
94- Seek’st thou the cause of loathing?—look around.
95- Lo! here, despite of war and the wasting fire,
96- I saw successive tyrannies expire.
97- ’Scaped from the ravage of the Turk and Goth,
98- Thy country sends a spoiler worse than both.
99- Survey this vacant, violated fane;
100- Recount the relics torn that yet remain:
101- These Cecrops placed, this Pericles adorn’d,
103- What more I owe let gratitude attest—
104- Know, Alaric and Elgin did the rest.
105- That all may learn from whence the plunderer came,
106- The insulted wall sustains his hated name:
109- Be ever hailed with equal honour here
110- The Gothic monarch and the Pictish peer:
111- arms gave the first his right, the last had none,
112- But basely stole what less barbarians won.
113- So when the lion quits his fell repast,
114- Next prowls the wolf, the filthy jackal last;
113- So when the lion quits his fell repast,
114- Next prowls the wolf, the filthy jackal last;
195- Some calm spectator, as he takes his view,
196- In silent indignation mix’d with grief,
197- Admires the plunder, but abhors the thief.
