by David Wilson Part one of a two part series for BBC4, preseted by Dr Michael Scott of Darwin College, Cambridge. Shot in Athens, Sparta, Macedon and the UK, the film explores the intense debate about luxury which went on throughout the classical period, and which has many echoes in our own time [vimeo clip_id=”25556379″]

  Photo: Ancient guitar with square base.   Ancient Greek music is one of the lesser known chapters in the wide field of study of Hellenic civilisation. Although much has been said and written about its major role in everyday life, there is still very much to be investigated in this area of the arts in Ancient Greece. The absence […]

08/27/2010 ANA-MPA/Alexander the Great’s achievements were one of his favorite childhood tales, whereas ancient Greece and classical antiquity piqued his curiosity from a very young age. His fascination with Hellenic civilisation, in fact, took Omar Sultan all the way to the University of Thessaloniki to study the classics and archaeology. Decades later the classically-educated Sultan serves his native Afghanistan as […]

Mendrisio Museum of Art, Canton Ticino, Switzerland September 12, 2009 – January 10, 2010 The Mendrisio Museum of Art presents a large exhibition dedicated to the art of the  classical antiquity. Organized on the occasion of the World Cycling-Road Race Championship in Mendrisio, the theme of the exhibition is the figure of the athlete. Through 150 objects – from sculpture to […]

*Ulrich Wilcken, “Alexander the Great (The Norton Library) ”,   page 89 Alexander undertook as his first duty the liberation of the Greek cities of Asia Minor from the Persian yoke. page 91 Everywhere the liberation from Persian rule was greeted with enthusiasm, and Alexander celebrated as the liberator. page 94 The first point of the Panhellenic program had been quickly achieved: […]

(2) The Language of Ancient Macedonians according to modern Linguists and Historians * Hammond & Griffith “A History of Macedonia 550-336 BC” Vol II “Macedonian was not a non-Greek language but a dialect of the Greek language in which Alexander spoke for a special purpose; and in the case of his order the vocabulary, as well as the pronunciation, was […]

Collection of ancient literary Evidence which prove Ancient Macedonians were dinstict from Barbarians.   [1] During this period he [Alexander] defeated the Maedi who had risen in revolt, captured their city, drove out its barbarous inhabitants, established a colony of Greeks assembled from various regions and named it Alexandroupolis. [Plut. 7.9, page 260) [Here we have undisputed evidence of Macedonia’s Greekness. On […]

Ancient Macedonians From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia    This article is about the people of ancient Greece; for all other uses, see Macedonian (disambiguation).    The expansion of the ancient Macedonians in 4th century BC. The Macedonians (Greek: Μακεδόνες, Makedónes) were an ancient tribe which inhabited the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Axius, north of Mount Olympus […]