| Definition of 'elgin marbles' |
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1. (noun) Elgin Marbles
a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures and fragments of architecture created by Phidias; chiefly from the Parthenon in Athens
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1. elgin marbles
greek sculptures in the British Museum. They were obtained at Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin
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1. elgin marbles
a collection of ancient sculptured marbles brought from Athens by the Earl of Elgin in 1812, and now deposited in the British Museum, after purchase of them by the Government for £35,000; these sculptures adorned certain public buildings in the Acropolis, and consist of portions of statues, of which that of Theseus is the chief, of alto-reliefs representing the struggle of the Centaurs and Lapithæ, and of a large section of a frieze.
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