Syria, the "Little Macedonia»: Amphipolis, Dion, Pella

Report with 300 and more photos from Syria, a "definitively lost" world, inaugurated on 6 February, in Thessaloniki of NBG cultural centre.

The ' greeting ' in ' Syria ' filtati had started much earlier. From the start-almost- the civil war (the 2011) in the Middle East sparassomeno, in one of the oldest countries in the world, with history 7.000 times.

The Syria was "another Greece» of Seleykou, the "Little Macedonia" in the descriptions of Strabo. Had 50 Greek cities, that brought city names of Macedonia (Dion, Pella, Edessa, Veroia, Amphipolis, Seleucia, Antioch, etc.) and prospered in the Hellenistic, Graeco-Roman and Byzantine era.

Just last December, the The United Nations Institute for training and research (UNITAR) announcing that about 290 Heritage sites or monuments in Syria have been damaged by the ongoing civil war, as can be seen from satellite photographs.

«… For the fishermen of purple and merchants of phoenice.

… For the Bedouin, the Druze and the Kurds who live in the ancient ereipiwnes.

.. For the dozens of uninhabited Byzantine villages.

… The afternoons in Simeon the Styliti, when blush stones, the dyseis in the desert, the nights on the Euphrates, the Golden Dawn in Palmyra.

… For the metropolises of five Christian denominations in Aleppo and the heavenly gardens with jasmine and lemon trees behind the fence of the House gerikwn.

… For the Romanos the Melodist and Ephraim the Syrian.

… For the Hannah Mansour, that we said John Damascene…».

Are excerpts from the "dedication" of curator Marianna Koromila in "big" and "filtati" only in Syria-introduction multi-faceted photographic exhibition, titled "Hail, Oh filtati Syria – Photos of theophilos Precursor from a permanently lost world», developed by the 6 February, in Cultural Center of Thessaloniki of the cultural foundation of the National Bank.

Lighthouse prwtergatis of Greek culture and Christianity, Damascus «spoke» Greek on 10 centuries: From the 300 e.g.. until the 705 a.d., so the Caliph Al-Walid abolished the Greek as the official language of the State ", that was until then.

300 photos from 3.000 shots

… "To relive and share our biomes. To not lose Syria from our eyes. To stay this great cultural cradle in our memories and our own memory to become domain…»

The 300 and now photos (of doctor – amateur photographer Theophilos Baptist– furious traveler, older, and "lover" of images of threatened with complete destruction the country) selected through more than 3.000 shots and compose longer-combined with the texts of Marianna Koromila- brilliant travelogue in long-suffering Syria.

"While keeping a close eye the tragedy unfolding in the Middle East, the plight of millions of people, the destruction and pillage of important monuments, the report is purely cultural, without references to recent events» Showjumping organiser and continue…

The mechanisms of memory

"With the lens of theophilos Baptist history texts and Marianna Koromila unfolds a genteel world, deeply civilised and very intimate in the historical memory of Hellenism.

Among the extremely important information that will give the lecture of Professor Iota Asimakopoulou – Atzakas is illegal export of Syrian mosaics, through the black market, by Tzichanistes.

The objective is to mobilize the mechanisms of memory, thinking back not just the thousand years of the Hellenistic, Greco-Roman and Byzantine history in the place (333 e.g.. until 636 a.d.), but it also ties and influences between Greek and Syrian culture from the bronze age until today».

Damascus spoke Greek for 10 centuries

The Syria was "another Greece» of Seleykou, the "Little Macedonia"in the descriptions of Strabo. Had 50 Greek cities, that brought city names of Macedonia (Dion, Pella, Edessa, Veroia, Amphipolis, Seleucia, Antioch, etc.) and prospered in the Hellenistic, Graeco-Roman and Byzantine era.

Lighthouse prwtergatis of Greek culture and Christianity, Damascus «spoke» Greek on 10 centuries: From the 300 e.g.. until the 705 a.d., so the Caliph Al-Walid abolished the Greek as the official language of the State ", that was until then.

There-and then in Baghdad- became the first Greek book translations in Arabic, that rescued many of the works of the ancient Greeks.

The exhibition is co-organized by the Archive of Panorama cultural society (APAN) and the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank.

"It is quite the poems of Cavafy, inspired by Syria, that "exposed" and those (in sound playback, but also in texts hanging on banners) in the space of the exhibition. On the occasion of de, the exhibition hosts in its premises, the NBG issued two little tomidia: "The Syriac poems of c. p.. Cavafy "and to" tropic of cancer "by Marianna Koromila.

Lectures with importance

The exhibition is accompanied by a series of lectures on the topic, school visits and seminars for educators.

The first lecture was set for Thursday 12 February, at 19.15, in NBG's bookstore (Tsimiski 11) with theme: «Historical geography of the Middle East"and speaker historian Marianna Koromila.

At 25 February, the Professor of Classical Archaeology at the ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY of THESSALONIKI, Iota Asimakopoulou – Atzakas will give a lecture at the Museum of Byzantine culture in Thessaloniki for "The mosaics of Syria». Among the extremely important information that will give the illegal export of Syrian mosaics, through the black market, from the Tzichanistes.

Numerous mosaics now showcases great graces and regional museums in the USA and in Europe, While parts of rare mosaics, as archaiokapilias products, kept in several private collections around the world.

Only within a month were stolen and sold 18 unique style mosaic with scenes from the Odyssey from Northeastern Syria

The exhibition will be open to the public until 19 April.

With RES and "ethnos" newspaper information

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