Man Returns Dad’s ‘Souvenir Of Parthenon’ And Turns Out It Was Even Older Acropolis Relic

Man Returns Dad’s ‘Souvenir Of Parthenon’ And Turns Out It Was Even Older Acropolis Relic

Man Returns Dad’s ‘Souvenir Of Parthenon’ And Turns Out It Was Even Older Acropolis Relic – credit Greek Culture Ministry In 2022, an elder Chilean man walked into the Greek embassy in Santiago on a mission: to turn himself in. Not that 77-year-old Enrico Tosti-Croce had done anything wrong, but rather he was putting a small family matter to rest. In the 1930s, a young Italian submariner visited Athens with the Italian Navy and paid a visit to the legendary Parthenon, a temple built to honor the goddess Athena atop the Acropolis of Athens in the 5th century BCE. There, he found a small piece of marble statuary decorated with a lotus flower, and with the idea of cultural patrimony still far off beyond the World War he would eventually fight in, Gaetano Tosti-Croce took the piece for himself. After the war, when he fled/immigrated to Chile, he would show it off to anyone who visited his home, a habit his son began to replicate. “When someone came to my house for the first time, I would show th…