Elgin Baylor

Chamberlain’s unprecedented scoring and rebounding averages, we need to highlight a few other significant achievements. First, Elgin Baylor averaged 38.3 points and 18.6 rebounds per game that year. Sure, Chamberlain had Baylor beat by 12 points per game, but Baylor averaged more that year than Michael Jordan ever did in a given season and he never came to those averages for the remainder of his career. Second, Walt Bellamy averaged 31.6 points and 19.0 rebounds per game that same year, which also happened to be his rookie season. Like Baylor, he would never match those totals. Unlike Baylor, fans typically remember him as a good, but not great basketball player if he is even remembered at all. Third, Oscar Robertson is probably best known for being the only player in NBA history to average a triple-double in a single season. When did that happen? Again, it was during the 1961-62 season. And again, he never matched that feat. The season and its predecessor and successor were peaks of a transitional era in the NBA. The league underwent a significant learning curve with the introduction of the 24 second shot clock in the 1954-55 season. Players and teams had to learn how to score and defend in a fast paced environment, and the rule change was far more beneficial for athletic players who could adapt to a highly evolved game. Players like Chamberlain, Robertson, and Baylor thrived at the beginning of the shot clock era while others faded to obscurity. As a result, the 1960-61 and…

associated with its city, however Britain denied the request. With both power and exposure much controversies arose regarding The Elgin Marbles, raising the question if the Parthenon sculptures belongs to Athens or if the British acquired them fair and square. Greek art thrived because it reflected its political climate of its day, displaying famous mythology of its time. However, in Greek mythology there were many controversies raising concerns regarding authentication. The Elgin affair has…

seized from their homelands while the museums that these items now occupy shout back that their ownership is inarguably legal and honest. The beloved Elgin Marbles of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece have become the epitome of both judicial and moral grey area in the arena of repatriation. The British Museum, where these marbles are now housed, and Greece both have strong cases for their desire to respectively retain or regain these artifacts of the Parthenon.…

Acropolis. Integral to this decision to build the museum was the desire to build a space that was equipped to house and conserve the artifacts from the Acropolis and to reunite the Parthenon sculptures. The museum has five permanent galleries to do this – The Gallery of the Slopes of the Acropolis, The Archaic Gallery, The Parthenon Gallery, Propylaia, Athena Nike and Erechtheion Gallery and the 5th century BC to the 5th century AD Gallery. The completed museum does have the amenities to…

order to pursue poetry, to caring for his dying brother, and falling in love. When he caught tuberculosis in July of 1820 many of the sonnets he wrote contained his recognition of mortality. The sonnet “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” tells the reader how John Keats struggles with mortality and that struggle brought this sonnet to express that accepting fate exceeds denying an inevitable death. John Keats’ sonnet begins with a statement about mortality. He states how he knows that his mortality…

The Elgin Marbles are part of one of the longest cultural rows in Europe. They are comprised of sculptures, inscriptions and architectural features. Lord Elgin who was ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (which Athens was a part of) acquired the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens between 1801 and 1805. The Greeks have demanded that they be returned to their homeland and displayed in Athens. The Greek government claims that the Elgin marbles were taken illegally during the country's Turkish…

The Elgin Marbles, also known as the Parthenon Marbles, are cultural artifacts from ancient Greece. A British ambassador named Elgin was concerned about the probable damage that could have occurred to many important pieces of artworks in the temple of Greece during the Turkish occupation. Apparently, permission and the authority was given to Elgin to take many pieces of stone. Thus, the pieces were transported to London, England to preserve them. The British since then have the pieces of artwork…

that these marbles are not Athens’s items, but that they belong to the world. It is argued that the Parthenon cannot be owned because of it's history, and many believe that the audience should span the whole globe. It has been said many times that the British Museum has no plans on returning any art work, but that won't stop the people of Athens from continuing their protest. The intentions of Lord Elgin could have been good…

The Parthenon or “Elgin Marbles” controversy has had both Britain and Greece scramble over who has the most acceptable appeal regarding the statues ever since Lord Elgin removed the statues from the Parthenon. Yet, from a direct comparison between the two nations based upon the strength of arguments, Britain has the most valid claim to the Parthenon Marbles. Though the flaws and bias involved in the extrapolation of evidence mush be considered such as the lack of an original document provided by…

Each country has the right to preserve its history, that is sensible. From the possible human and logical point of view, the true owners of the great artwork no matter where they are now, are the people who built them. In addition, the natural framework of any work, enhances its majesty, if a piece is Greek it is because speak of Greek culture and the past of the nation, therefore must belong to it, especially thinking that there is a museum on the Acropolis where they will be perfectly…