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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—According to the Greek Reporter, three siblings handed over a collection of ancient artifacts acquired by their parents in the 1970s and 1980s to Greece’s Culture Minister Lina Mendoni during a ceremony held at the Greek Consulate General in Chicago. The collection includes two black-figure Attic vessels; an amphora; a pitcher; a bronze mirror; a headless marble statue of the god Hermes; and a fragment of a relief depicting the goddess Athena. Mendoni said that more than 200 artifacts have been voluntarily repatriated in recent years by such allies in the fight against antiquities trafficking. To read about mythological scenes on Greek vases, go to "The Unexpected World of the Odyssey: Birth of Spring."
