Drama for Students Volume 1 by David Galens, Lynn Spampinato

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Marcellus first set foot on Melos after Brest, the consular agent, had expressed French interest in purchasing the Venus, but had been unsuccessful in brokering a deal. More importantly, Marcellus arrived after Verges had then been able to fix the statue’s sale price and to arrange for its transport. Against all odds, the Frenchman prevailed on the notables of Melos to break their agreement with Verges and to turn the marble pieces over to him. 67 He also described the transaction as most generous, because he gave Giorgos double the amount that he would have received from Verges, if the latter had ever paid up (40).

Marcellus then qualified the Ottoman attitude toward human figures in art as an “aversion,” an attitude with which he cunningly faulted Mourouzes as well: “Next, I reminded them [the Greek notables of Melos] of the uselessness of a present of that kind, of the little value it carried in Constantinople, of the Turks’ aversion for human representations and, above all, for mutilated idols (idoles mutilées)”(38). However, Verges wanted to bestow the gift of the Venus on the Greek Mourouzes, who would not have had any Islam-inspired “aversion” for representations of human figures.

Marcellus then qualified the Ottoman attitude toward human figures in art as an “aversion,” an attitude with which he cunningly faulted Mourouzes as well: “Next, I reminded them [the Greek notables of Melos] of the uselessness of a present of that kind, of the little value it carried in Constantinople, of the Turks’ aversion for human representations and, above all, for mutilated idols (idoles mutilées)”(38). However, Verges wanted to bestow the gift of the Venus on the Greek Mourouzes, who would not have had any Islam-inspired “aversion” for representations of human figures.

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