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Definition of Elgin marbles
1. Noun. A collection of classical Greek marble sculptures and fragments of architecture created by Phidias; chiefly from the Parthenon in Athens.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elgin Marbles
Literary usage of Elgin marbles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles by British Museum (1833)
"Lawrence, in his work on the elgin marbles, speaks of it as a statue from one of
the pediments of the Parthenon. All that is certainly known of it is, ..."
2. Realities and Ideals: Social, Political, Literary and Artistic by Fredric Harrison (1908)
"... XIX THE elgin marbles (From the "Nineteenth Century," 1890) IT is surely high
time for us to think how and when the elgin marbles are to be restored to ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1886)
"The collection thus formed by operations at Athens, and by explorations in other
parts of Greece, and now known by the name of the 'elgin marbles,' consists ..."
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