Sophie Gee
speaker
11,180 appearances
40 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4d ago
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He wrote about it in Charles Harold's Pilgrimage, which is his kind of grand tour parody poem.
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He has his his hero lamenting the removal of the sculptures.
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But he actually wrote an entire other poem, The Curse of Minerva.
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And it was printed in 1812 in London privately.
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It was privately circulated by T Thomas Davison and it's a
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scathing attack on Thomas Bruce and we're repeating his name 'cause it comes up in the poem Lord Elgin for removing the marbles.
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Um Byron did not put his name on the title page, but it was known who he was.
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Shall I read us a bit from The Curse of Minerva?
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Okay.
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Good.
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So this is Athena, the goddess of the Parthenon, reproaching this act of thievery.
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Mortal, 'twas thus she spake, that blush of shame proclaims thee Britain, once of noble name, first of the mighty, foremost of the free, now honoured less by all, and least by me.
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These secrups placed, this, Heracles adorned, that Adrian reared when drooping science mourned.
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What more I own, let gratitude attest.
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No, Alaric and Elgin did the rest.
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That all may learn from whence the plunderer came, the insulted world sustains his hated name.
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For Elgin's fame, thus grateful,
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Pallas pleads, below his name, above, behold his deeds.
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Be ever hailed with equal honour here the Gothic monarch, and the Pictish peer arms gave, The first his right, the last had none, But basely stole what less barbarians won.
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So when the lion quits his fell repast, Next prowls the wolf, the filthy jackal last, Flesh, limbs, and blood the former make their own.
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