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116 Culture and migration: a path towards cultural integration of refugees and migrants Minerva” 181 . 182 Influence of Byron’s Grecian poems helped to consolidate and strengthen the philhellenic movement first in Europe, and soon, increasingly, in Greece itself. And, from the beginning, the Parthenon became an integral part of the construction of the Modern Greek sense of national identity, a visible and tangible manifestation of the continuity which the myth required and asserted. 183 2. Although expecting gratitude from refugees can be toxic, 184 it is healthy for refugees to have personal gratitude to the country that has accepted them. Same thing for the Parthenon sculptures: even Melina Mercouri, who as a Minister of the Greek Government campaigned for the return of the Parthenon sculptures, acknowledged “the excellent care given to the Marbles by the British Museum” 185 . 186 E. Τhird set of analogies: Τheir return to Greece The return of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece can be based upon three arguments according to their refugee analogies. 1. The Parthenon sculptures must be returned to Greece according to the re- availment of national protection . The “Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees” articulates a concept of “fundamental changes in the country of origin, which can be assumed to remove the basis of the fear of persecution”. 187 the story with due acknowledgement in the notes to subsequent editions of his poem. Clarke, in his return, asked permission to quote from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage in the enormous book of Travels on which he was then engaged and obtained Byron’s thanks for “preserving my relics embalmed in your own spices - ensuring me readers to whom I could not otherwise have aspired. Byron to Clarke, 15 December 1813, Letters and Journals, iii. 199. [As quoted in W. St. Clair: Lord Elgin & The Marbles. Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 190.] 181. Th. Vrettos: Υπόθεση Έλγιν (=The Elgin case). Ενάλιος, 1998, p. 208. 182. Elgin’s enemies were not limited to poets and novelists. The worst attacks against him were made by Richard Payne Knight in England. Idem, p. 213. 183. W. St. Clair: Lord Elgin & The Marbles. Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 189. 184. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 03.05.2017. Available at: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ thecurrent/the-current-for-may-3-2017-1.4095703/expecting-gratitude-from-refugees-can- be-toxic-says-author-1.4095737 [30.01.2020]. 185. Although in May 1939 “Elgin Marbles Damaged in Cleaning” ran a headline in the Daily Mail. W. St. Clair: Lord Elgin & The Marbles. Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 300. 186. Idem, p. 306. 187. Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, para. 135. Handbook