Thanks, Marcus. I had a niggling little thought saying they were Greek as soon as I wrote that, but ignored it. Now I'm curious, I'll have to look into it more.
...Ah, wunnerful Wiki. I see Byron even wrote a poem denouncing the removal by Elgin:
Dull is the eye that will not weep to see
Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed
By British hands, which it had best behoved
To guard those relics ne'er to be restored.
Curst be the hour when from their isle they roved,
And once again thy hapless bosom gored,
And snatch'd thy shrinking gods to northern climes abhorred!
Oh, geez, now I'm really OT. Sorry, no more about the Elgin stuff, I promise.