Σχόλιο αναγνώστη μας...

Μια διαφορετική προσέγγιση (δυστυχώς στα Αγγλικά) στο θέμα της ανάρτησής μας
"Φίλε ξένε. Στην Ακρόπολη έρχεσαι να προσκυνήσεις, όχι να ελεήσεις.."

I do not support this argument. If the foreign visitors come to worship, then they should not pay for admission. Pericles did not sell tickets at the door.

If the foreign visitors are visiting Athens for a limited time, as is usually the case, and they want to admire the architectural wonder from up close, a structural masterpiece which our ancestors have bequeathed upon us, and since we choose to charge for admission, then it is sound marketing as well as common sense to accomodate our guests.

John William Polidori, Lord Byron's physician, in his novel The Vampyre, captures his personal perception of ancient Greek glory in pre-revolutionary Greece: "He then fixed residence in the house of a Greek; and soon occupied himself in tracing the faded records of ancient glory upon monuments that apparently, ashamed of chronicling the deeds of freemen only before slaves, had hidden themselves beneath the sheltering soil or many coloured lichen." (p. 8)

While the entrance to the ancient temple remains closed by certain political factions whose ideology contradicts those of Solon, Cleisthenes and Pericles, do these monuments built by freemen feel ashamed as they did during the Ottoman occupation?