Frieze Frame - How Poets, Painters, and their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon

A. E. Stallings has marshalled poetry, personal letters, paintings, a dubiously translated 1801 firman, newspaper clippings, parliamentary proceedings, a Greek political campaign, and other lore in this deliciously detailed and gossipy history of the Parthenon (AKA, Elgin) Marbles.