The morality of art always seems like such a simple thing. The Greeks want back the so-called Elgin Marbles pilfered by the Lord of that name where they rightly belong in the Parthenon, that monument to what generally feels like the greatest civilisation we know, certainly the most soaringly beautiful and sunlit of the civilisations we derive from.
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