But does that do justice to the building in its setting on the Acropolis?
Mr Glezos is famous for tearing down the Nazi swastika flag from the Acropolis in May 1941.
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We scramble through the mists up the side of one acropolis, clinging to the creepers and allspice trees that have overgrown it.
And the government, desperate to raise money, is said to be putting price tags on the Parthenon, the Acropolis, and several islands.
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But the real risk is not that the Greek claims, boosted by the new Acropolis Museum, will discourage lending programmes between museums.
Things didn't turn out so well for the young inventor--Daedalus became jealous of his talent, and threw him off the top of the Acropolis.
In fact, they dated from the end of the last ice age, long before the first stones had been laid at the Pyramids, Stonehenge or the Acropolis.
Here at the foot of the Acropolis you are reminded that human beings do remarkably similar things from one historical epoch to the next.
The Greek authorities wish to reunite all the surviving sculptures from the Parthenon in the new Acropolis museum, which they say will open next year.
The caryatids, five larger-than-life-size female statues that supported a porch on the Erechtheum temple on the Acropolis, survey the museum's lobby from an internal balcony.
Its glittering bulk, squeezed into a narrow plot beneath the Acropolis hill, contrasts sharply with shabby blocks of flats nearby and the pale-coloured rocky slope.
From the Athens Hilton, guests could look out to the Acropolis.
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"The site is completely unique, showing 1, 500 years of history, giving us a complete picture of how people lived, " says George Papathanasopoulos, former director of the Acropolis Archaeological Site.
Making its way to Britain, the flame will first take in Greek archaeological sites including the Acropolis and Olympic Stadium in Athens, site of the first modern Games in 1896.
Athens, a street below the Acropolis: the old man in front of me stops in mid-stride to read a leaflet, which has been trodden into the pavement at his feet.
Many archaeological remains have been uncovered during the digging for the museum's foundations - not something which is particularly surprising given how close the building site is to the Acropolis itself.
For the Greeks, criticised in the past for not having a suitable place to display the Acropolis sculptures, the inauguration of the new museum is the strongest possible argument for repatriating the marbles.
If the stones of the Acropolis could speak - with 2, 500 years of watching human nature and political ideologies collide - they would probably say: well, that means the euro has become intolerable to the people of Europe.
During a tour of the Acropolis on Saturday, Mr Clinton assured Greece's minister of culture, Elisavet Papazoi, that he would urge Britain to return the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon which are the subject of an ongoing dispute.
Yannis Palaiologos, a young Greek writer, is encouraged by the warm response to his new play which satirises corruption: it describes a scheme by an unscrupulous government to sell the Acropolis to businessmen who prove to be priests.
Alexandros Mantis, a Greek expert on the ancient Acropolis temples, also points out that the frieze, which ran around the exterior of the Parthenon, is arranged in London around the interior of a gallery, which is architecturally and aesthetically wrong.
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