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Hi all It's common knowledge that one of Alexander's pet dogs was called Peritas (but I do not remember the source for this). There is a late epigraph, on the 5th verse of which the name is mentioned (which by the way is a name for a person not a pet) along with a commentary that states that the nam...

Hi all Just before I cast my vote.... http://www.lifo.gr/team/omorfia/48361 The msueum in the link above was closed for 8 years for renovation purposes. Needlsess to talk about the importance of the artifacts it pays host to, most from Minoan Crete. Among those are some I haven't seen myself: The ti...

http://s1246.photobucket.com/user/IamSystem1988/library/Mentallion?sort=3&page=1 This is a link of some photos (not well taken, and not all of them) from the book. Agesilaos' review was very informative and of course, the authenticity of the medal is still on debate and in the question. The fact...

" The Alexander Medallion.Exploring the origins of a unique artefact" Published after the international roundtable that took place in Paris on 26 March 2007. Contents Foreword john Boardan Preface F.Holt and Osmund Bopearachi Authentity:F.Holt A joy and curse :Osmoud Bopearachi Doubt and d...

Hey all, just found this at a greek news site. Proffessor Osmund Bopearachchi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmund_Bopearachchi found this medal http://news.in.gr/culture/article/?aid=1231308589 and considers it to be the only one that was created while Alexander was still alive in order for his vict...

This is a google translation, not perfect but one gets the drift Thank you very much for your fast reflexes on translating this. I don't think there is any need to go about fixing anything with it because the scientific world as well as the rest of us will soon learn the results of these excavation...

http://news.in.gr/culture/article/?aid=1231303054

Please try to translate this in english when and if you can- it's really important.


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Here is something more: 5 royal tombs found in Vergina

http://www.lifo.gr/now/culture/43924

[229a] -Plato "Phaedrus" Socrates Let us turn aside here and go along the Ilissus; then we can sit down quietly wherever we please. Phaedrus I am fortunate, it seems, in being barefoot; you are so always. It is easiest then for us to go along the brook with our feet in the water, and it is...

I saw "300- Rise of an Empire". No comments. There is however a nice scene in there which shows the setting Athens on fire that happened just before the naval battle of Salamis- the main story of the movie. The reality part now- the marble stele found in 1959 at Troizen during ploughing (h...

Possibly from the word Μώμος, the god of deceit.

Thank you very much for your comment.Yes i believe there are similarites , with Sardinia even the word you mentioned exist in greek.

For all who are not already fed up with the subject, the link below leads to a lighter form of the bell carriers who paraded in Thessaloniki these days. If you watch the videos you will get a teste of how an ancient ceremony looked like! http://www.lifo.gr/team/omorfia/46401 My personal favorite: th...

Thank you very much Alexias.I think you said once that the site can be translated in english or am i wrong? so many can understand .

Lifo. gr 22 amazing fotos of ancient ritual ( bell-men)in eastern Macedonia.Every January -for the fertility of land and averting the evil.

Nicator wrote:I presently have them written as 'skirmishers' and may leave it at that with a footnote. Thanks for the info.

With all reservations and thanks in advance for this but who is Christakis whose words you quote? Is he a writer? I could not find him anywhere.