drifted into the british museum after my seminar and hadn’t realised the parthenon friezes roo

drifted into the british museum after my seminar and hadn’t realised the parthenon friezes rooms were finally open again, so came to see my old friends before settling down in the cafe to do some reading. I feel as strongly as anyone that these should be back in athens, where they belong and where their intricacy and their magnitude would be so much more important and so much better respected. I find this museum very uncomfortable and in many ways I would like it to become obsolete. that being said, I’m still a classicist at heart, and I feel an immense sense of comfort in the presence of the ancient world, so while it is still here - and while it’s round the corner - I won’t deny myself that