With support from the University of Richmond

History News Network

History News Network puts current events into historical perspective. Subscribe to our newsletter for new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present. Explore our archive of thousands of original op-eds and curated stories from around the web. Join us to learn more about the past, now.

Greece protests Louvre exhibit of Apollo statue

Greece has asked the Louvre Museum in Paris to not show a disputed 4th century BC statue of Apollo on loan from a US museum, saying it may have been illegally acquired, a culture ministry source said."We do not want this work, attributed to the great sculptor Praxiteles, to be presented at the Louvre because doing so would legitimize" its acquisition by the Cleveland Museum in Ohio, the source told AFP, requesting anonymity.

Read entire article at Breitbart