Ο Παρθενώνας του Κώστα Γαβρά.

Το συγκεκριμένο βίντεο (διάρκειας 7:34)  είχε δημιουργηθεί για την Πολιτιστική Ολυμπιάδα της Αθήνας και λογοκρίθηκε (αφαιρέθηκε σκηνή) μετά από παρέμβαση της Ιεράς Συνόδου της Εκκλησίας

Ο λόγος…

Το βίντεο παρουσιάζει χριστιανούς να καταστρέφουν το έργο του Φειδία.

Το βίντεο μας θύμισε ο συνάδελφος Θάνος Στασινόπουλος.

Parthenon by Costa-Gavras: An animated video depicting the long history of Parthenon (7:34 mins).
It was released in 2003, and now it’s displayed in the new Acropolis Museum.
In the museum version, the section showing Christians destroying Feidias’ works has been censored on request by the Greek Orthodox Church, causing the anger of the film’s director.
The poem in the video is a fragment from 'The Curse of Minerva' by Lord Byron, 1811.

"Mortal!"  -’twas thus she spake- "that blush of shame
Proclaims thee Briton, once a noble name;
First of the mighty, foremost of the free,
Now honour’d less by all, and least by me;
Chief of thy foes shall Pallas still be found.
Seek’st thou the cause of loathing? -look around.
Lo! here, despite of war and wasting fire,
I saw successive tyrannies expire.
’Scaped from the ravage of the Turk and Goth,
Thy country sends a spoiler worse than both.
Survey this vacant, violated fane;
Recount the relics torn that yet remain:
These Cecrops placed, this Pericles adorn’d,
That Adrian rear’d when drooping Science mourn’d.
What more I owe let gratitude attest-
Know, Alaric and Elgin did the rest.
That all may learn from whence the plunderer came,
The insulted wall sustains his hated name: