Melina Mercouri was many things: a film star, a cabinet minister, and, depending on your view, either a diplomatic thorn in Britain's side or Greece's most effective cultural advocate.

Her 1960 film Never on Sunday made her famous internationally, earning her Best Actress at Cannes and an Oscar nomination. But the monument on Dionysiou Areopagitou, where she sits in marble on a bench as if enjoying the afternoon, commemorates something else entirely.

As Greece's Minister of Culture, she launched the campaign to bring the Parthenon sculptures home from the British Museum, a battle that began in the 1980s and shows no sign of ending. She also pushed for this street itself to become the pedestrian promenade it is today, connecting the ancient sites below the Acropolis.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours follow her story from screen to parliament, placing the monument in the broader argument over who owns the ancient world's greatest treasures.