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Instructiоns: Yоu dо not hаve а time limit. Tаke your time. Prompts: 1. Claim: Identify the claims. Identify each of the author’s main argument about what should happen to the Marbles (cite each article using a narrative in-text citation) Then tell me what your position is. What do you think should happen to the Marbles that are at the British Museum. Evidence: Use specific evidence from both articles. Cite each source. Use evidence that you agree with to talk about why your position is correct. This evidence that you provide here explains why you made the claim you did in #1. Choose some of the facts that the authors present that best supports your position. You can paraphrase or quote. Use evidence that you do not agree with to talk about why the opposite position is wrong. This evidence that you provide here explains why you made the claim you did in #1. Choose some of the facts that the authors present that best supports your position. You can paraphrase or quote. Connect your evidence to your claim: Add a statement that connects your evidence to your claim. This statement should explain why the first piece of evidence you used in 2A, that you agree with, supports your chosen position. Add a statement that connects your evidence to your claim. This statement should explain why the second piece of evidence you used in 2B disproves the opposing position about the Marbles. Remember that convincing arguments admit other options are possible and work to disprove those other options. Works Cited: Include a full MLA citation for each article (Earle and Lawson-Tancred). Tips: Name the article and author before discussing the author's ideas. Name the article and author by using a narrative in-text citation to introduce the source. Write this in a full sentence. If you cannot remember what a narrative in-text citation is, please go back to the Citing Sources Module after you complete this assignment. If you quote, explain the quote. Use a parenthetical (in-text) citation. Your job is to use both articles to develop your own position on what should happen to the marbles. If you see a third option please outline this after you accomplish the goals of the assignment and respond to the prompts as instructed. If you have suggestions on how to make this assignment stronger, clearer, and foster student learning, please leave these comments at the end of your submission. I will read your feedback. You do not have a time limit. Take your time. Text of articles: Greece Rallies Global Allies to Reclaim the Parthenon Marbles: Public support for restitution is growing. Jo Lawson-Tancred Artnet June 27, 2025 https://news.artnet.com/about/jo-lawson-tancred-14118 Greece is quietly building a cultural coalition—and it may finally tip the balance in the long-running fight to bring the Parthenon Marbles home. This week, Italy’s culture minister Alessandro Giuli pledged his country’s support for the marbles’ return during a diplomatic visit to Athens, where he also announced the repatriation of 145 ancient coins, according to reports in the Greek press. The move signals growing international momentum behind Greece’s campaign, as U.K. negotiations inch closer to a possible resolution and global public opinion continues to shift in favor of restitution. “Greece and Italy are co-guardians of classical civilization—a foundation of European and global culture,” said Greek culture minister Lina Mendoni, who is intent on building international support to repatriate the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum, where they have been held for over 200 years, to the Acropolis Museum in Athens. The two ministers have devised an extensive program of joint cultural initiatives, including an exhibition of modern Greco-Italian metaphysical painters like Giorgio de Chirico and Alberto Savinio, whose work will be shown alongside the antiquities that inspired them. The countries will also exchange two thematically twinned shows “Cycladic Women: Untold Stories,” currently on view in Santorini, and “Being a Woman in Pompeii,” which recently opened in Pompeii. The alliance between the two countries comes as Greece and U.K. are widely reported to be in “ongoing and constructive” negotiations over the return of the Parthenon Marbles. Late last year, George Osborne, the chair of the British Museum, spoke of the move towards “an agreement in principle” to reunify the antiquities in Athens, according to a report in the Guardian. Most notably, the U.K.’s Labour government, installed last summer, departs from the previously long-reigning Conservative party in taking a neutral stance. Former U.K. prime minister Rishi Sunak had previously vowed to protect the marbles, calling them a “huge asset” to the U.K. However, the nature of a possible agreement remains elusive as a 1963 U.K. law forbids the British Museum to deaccession objects while Greece refuses to accept the marbles’ return as a “loan.” Such an arrangement would implicitly recognize the U.K.’s claim to ownership of the marbles, which Greece does not. As quoted in Greek outlet Parapolitika, Dan Hicks, a professor of modern archaeology at the University of Oxford, predicted that “the sculptures will return to Athens by the end of the decade, one way or another, and it seems we are well on track for that timeline.” This opinion was recently backed by Mendoni. “I can, with certainty, add that, sooner or later, we will have results,” she told Parapolitika earlier this month. “However, any prediction of a specific time would not serve the success of the final goal. Especially when the discussions on these issues involve extremely careful and delicate manipulations.” Crucially, she noted “our ally is also international public opinion, as well as that of the United Kingdom, which is overwhelmingly in favor of the reunification of the Sculptures with the monument, their natural carrier.” She added that the international landscape is changing “drastically” in favor of the return of illegally exported goods to their natural birthplaces. “In recent years, hundreds of antiquities have been repatriated to Greece, thanks to the concerted efforts of the Ministry of Culture.” She reaffirmed Greece’s intention to “fill the void” that an absence of the Parthenon Marbles would create at the British Museum with a series of regular loans from Greece to the U.K. Italy and Greece’s new alliance echoes Mendoni’s productive efforts to strengthen cultural ties between Greece and the U.S. earlier this year, when she met U.S state department officials to discuss opportunities for the protection and promotion of ancient Greek heritage. This may include an exhibition of ancient Greek treasures that would coincide with the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028. Describing her meeting with Daren Beattie, Trump’s controversial acting undersecretary for public diplomacy, Mendoni said: “He loves Greece very much and has studied classics. He was enthusiastic and stated from the beginning that he was very keen not only to continue but to expand the cooperation we have.” Though that agreement did not include an explicit reference to the Parthenon Marbles, it concluded with the return to Greece of a 7th-century bronze head of a griffin from the Met. The precious piece was bequeathed to the museum in 1972 and had been on prominent permanent display ever since, moving to the entrance of the museum’s Greek and Roman galleries in 1999. -Jo Lawson-Tancred Why the British Museum should keep the Elgin Marbles: Museums should resist the pressure to repatriate ancient artefacts. Wendy Earle Spiked June 12, 2018 https://www.spiked-online.com/2018/06/12/why-the-british-museum-should-keep-the-elgin-marbles/ In a recent interview with the Greek newspaper, Ta Nea, UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn promised to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece if he becomes prime minister. These iconic examples of Ancient Greek sculpture, created in Athens in the 5th century BC, have been in the British Museum in London for over 200 years. They were brought to Britain by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century, with the permission of the then rulers of Greece, the Ottomans. A long-running campaign to return the marbles to Athens claims that their rightful place is in the new museum next to the Acropolis. Corbyn says he would also order the repatriation of other colonial-era artefacts. Pressure on museums to repatriate artefacts acquired under colonial rule is increasing. This month, a major UNESCO conference was convened to discuss these issues and to find a way of managing all the demands for repatriation from international bodies and national governments. Although there may be legitimate arguments for the return of some artefacts, either now or in the future, doing so by political diktat is dangerous. As we all know, politicians tend to focus on the here and now, responding to the pressures of the moment. They are susceptible to putting political expediency above the preservation of cultural heritage and scholarship. The belief that a nation or community ‘owns’ an ancient artefact if it was produced within its borders might seem like common sense. But it is important to challenge this view. In reality, the connection between ancient civilisations and modern societies can be quite tenuous. Making a claim of ownership on a simple geographical basis often ignores the centuries of history that have transformed local, regional and national cultures. The Elgin Marbles are a case in point. Who do these beautiful sculptures belong to? They were created in Athens. But Greece – the nation as we know it today – did not actually exist at the time. Rather, the Greeks populated the area around the Aegean, the Black Sea and Mediterranean. There were about 1,500 (often quarrelsome) city states and communities with their own laws and armies. Collectively, they created the Ancient Greek civilisation, the first advanced society in Europe, now seen as the cradle of Western civilisation, which also influenced civilisations to its east. To see the Parthenon sculptures as belonging to one European country is to misunderstand their place in human history. Besides, the care and preservation of historical objects should be our primary concern. As Tiffany Jenkins argues in Keeping Their Marbles, there should be only three questions that govern where significant historical artefacts are kept: What is best for the objects, for scholars and for the public? Where are they best cared for and displayed? How do they best serve the development of scholarly knowledge and public interest? Jenkins suggests that the status quo works well for the Elgin Marbles. The two largest portions of the sculptures that decorated the Parthenon Temple on the Acropolis nearly 2,500 years ago are divided between Athens and London. One group is now beautifully displayed in the new museum in Athens, so millions of visitors can see them near the temple they were created for. The other group is displayed in the British Museum, where millions of visitors can see them alongside the works of civilisations that influenced their creation and which they, in turn, influenced. This is the best of both worlds. It is true that some of the world’s treasures were dislodged from their original homes under dubious circumstances. But while the repatriation of these treasures might carry symbolic value among political and social elites, they do nothing to solve current inequalities. What is more, the safety and survival of these artefacts is put at risk when they are used as diplomatic bargaining chips, or get caught up in a nation or community’s quest to assert its identity and status. It is right for museum experts and cultural leaders to consider whether a particular object should be returned to its original location. But they also need to recognise the benefits of having these treasures from very different parts of the world all in one place, where scholars and the public can study and appreciate them. European museums, including the British Museum and the Louvre, hold ‘an extraordinary repository of the high points of human achievement across many different cultures’, writes Nick Trend in the Telegraph. Subjecting these treasures to political diktat serves only short-term ends and risks tearing apart these collections. That would be to the detriment not just to these museums, but to the international publics and scholars who visit them. Wendy Earle is convenor of the Academy of Ideas Arts and Society Forum.