Posts Tagged “olympics”
Dec
20
2009
Prof. W. Clarysse: Macedonian nobility in Alexandria spoke a Doric Dialect and had Doric NamesPosted by Admin in ancient macedonian cities, ancient macedonian ethnicity, Ancient Macedonian History, Ancient Macedonian Kings, General News, Language, Linguistics![]() One of the best researches over the Ethnic diversity and dialects in Ptolemaic Egypt and especially in Alexandria, comes from prof. W. Clarysse. Prof. Clarysse after examining all the available evidence regarding the names of ancient Macedonians in the Alexandria of Egypt, concludes that "nearly all the names are Greek and only 3 hellenized families shows traces of ... Tags: alexandria, ancient macedonians, dialect, dorian, doric, Koine Greek, macedonia, names, olympics, papyrus, plutarch, poseidippos, ptolemies
Nov
21
2008
Evaluating Herodotus’ testimony on the ancient MacedoniansPosted by Admin in ancient macedonian ethnicity, Ancient Macedonian History, Ancient Macedonian Kings, Articles, FYROM Propaganda, Skopjan Propaganda![]() Australian Macedonian Advisory Council November 21, 2008 In the following text I shall present the whole Herodotean testimony on the ancient Macedonian history. But before proceeding with the presentation I must clarify the four separate components of the ancient Macedonian history. These components can be seen as distinctions between the Macedonian Royal House and the Macedonian population ... Tags: alexander, ancient, herodotus, macedonians, olympics, persians
Jul
31
2008
Antikythera Mechanism may have timetabled ancient Olympic GamesPosted by Admin in General NewsThe Antikythera Mechanism, a clockwork device made in Greece around 150–100 BC, astounded the world two years ago when scientists deduced how this machine was used to make complex astronomical time-reckonings. Now they say that the instrument, discovered in 1901 in a Mediterranean shipwreck, did much more than that. Researchers have been trying to decode the ... Tags: ancient, antikythera, calendars, civilization, Greece, greeks, mechanism, olympics, sciencies |
























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