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Zeus’s Athletes: Sports in antiquity

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 […]

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On the alleged differences between the Macedonians and the other ancient Greeks

On the alleged differences between the Macedonians and the other ancient Greeks

By Miltiades Elia Bolaris “εξ ιστορίας αναιρεθείσης της αληθείας, το καταλειπόμενον αυτής ανωφελές γίνεται διήγημα” Πολύβιος, Ιστορίαι Α,14,6 “once the truth is stripped out of history, all that is left of it is but a useless narrative” Polybios, Histories, I.14.6 Some revisionists of ancient history, in their attempt to promote their modern ultra nationalist agendas in the lower Balkans, have […]

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