In 1975, the Greek government began a large-scale, multidisciplinary project to address the declining condition of these structures, as well as of a lesser-known building called the Arrephorion, the defensive walls encircling the Acropolis, and the so-called “scattered members,” the thousands of complete, nearly complete, and fragmentary pieces of stone and marble that lie all over the surface of the Acropolis.
The text discusses the methods used to do this and the ideas behind them. I must admit I am a bit puzzled by the criticism of the Canadian writer and mentor John Hooker who writes scathingly:
I am reminded of the amount of history demolished on the Acropolis at Athens in order to provide a better view of the Parthenon. This included a Byzantine church! (Yannis Hamilakis, _The Nation and its Ruins_).
The site was more recently however a mosque, I wonder whether Mr Hooker would prefer a place of worship of the enemies of our civilization to stand on the ruins of the core of the very democracy which forms the basis of our own cvilization. Mr Hooker, look at this. In order to impose their sharia law and customs on the Greeks, the Moslems built mosques in the middle of the Acropolis, the Athenian Capitol:
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| The Moslems kept explosives in their mosques (nothing changes it seems) and this barbarism nearly destroyed the heritage of Greek civilization in 1687 |
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| A heathen mosque standing in the shattered ruins of Ancient Greece |
