In his recent address to the Joint Session of the US Congress, Greece's Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotaskis, reaffirmed the strong relations between the two countries, whilst highlighting a few firsts that Greece is known for such as inventing democracy and advocating equal rights for women.
"For it was a Greek man who first advocated equal rights for women. In THE REPUBLIC Plato proposed that women should share all levels of power and take all challenges, including military service. Any state that does not employ the talents of its women," Plato made clear, is wasting half of its resources. And as a son, husband, sibling, and father of strong, creative women, I couldn't agree more," said the Prime Minister in his address.
More controversial, for the British perhaps, was the Greek Prime Minister's characterization of Lord Elgin's relationship with the Parthenon sculptures.
"Like all Greeks, every time I came to Washington, I feel as if I am coming home, because everything I see around me, the architecture, the art and the ideas carved into the marble throughout the city is so familiar."
"Walking to the Lincoln Memorial is like walking into the Parthenon, when it was still intact, before Lord Elgin's collecting hobby defaced it, because it was modeled on an earlier monument.
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