Letter From Athens: Why Doesn´t Greece Want Back Aphrodite, Winged Victory Statues?
(WorldNews Greece)

The greatest treasure in the Louvre in Paris isn’t the Mona Lisa, which looks like a postage stamp from behind the cordons where you’ll stand with throngs of people gushing and ooing over Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece. The real prizes are Greek statues: Aphrodite, bastardized into Venus de Milo, spirited off the island of Milos, where it was found by a Greek farmer in 1820 inside a buried niche of ancient city ruins, with French officials buying it from the occupying Turks - who didn’t own it, and trying to justify it by compensating the man who found it. The other is the Winged Victory of Samothrace, from another Greek island, and perhaps the greatest single...