True, that. But the Venetians wouldn’t have had to shell it if the Turks weren’t using the top of the Parthenon hill as a fortress. And if they hadn’t stored ammunition in it.
Way to miss the point.
Another twenty years and the Greeks threw off the Turkish yoke. There was no ISIS back then gratuitously blowing up ****.
The Venetians didn’t worry about the structure at all, and shot at it with cannon.
The British are clinging to them as part of their past glory, kinda like the way they undermined Rhodesia because it hadn’t declared independence right, and it’s obvious where that led.
No one except the Greeks care passionately about them, and the sculptures are part of *their* heritage.