Parthenon

Provocative, polarizing, fascinating. An almost imperceptible explosion, a cloud of smoke, delicate silence - then the dull crack of bursting marble: The Parthenon on the Acropolis is history. Hardly has the smoke cleared when the painful emptiness is revealed: Where the symbol of Athens once stood, there is now - nothing. Crowds of people pilgrimage to the site of this Greek tragedy: Who has taken away their symbol, their anchor point? "I did not intend to do evil. I did not want to destroy... I saw myself as someone offering a gift, an escape, a challenge." As early as the mid-20th century, the poet Jorgos Makris called in a proclamation to rid oneself of the Parthenon. Now, 60 years later, someone is actually daring to do it. A young, upstanding man has the millennium.