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Excavation Of Amphipolis: “The following are always pleasant”

In progress is the time for the meeting of the Board of the RDCS of Central Macedonia, carried out symbolically in Amphipolis. During the meeting, the President of the RDCS, Lazaros Kyrizogloy, honored for offering the head of excavation, Katerina Peristeri. “We Respect, We appreciate and love your work, parakaloythoyme you night and day” said Mr. Kyrizogloy.

From the side of, Ms. Peristeri thanked elected for the price and noted that it “amazing universal excavation unparalleled no”. “Gives pleasure not only to archaeologists, but also in the whole world” noted features. To a question about whether he has to announce something pleasing for the topic, Ms. Peristeri said: “The following are always pleasant”.

From the side of, the Mayor of Amphipolis, Konstantinos Melitos, reported that through this excavation “revitalized and our people anabaptizetai”.

After the receiving of, Ms. Peristeri gave a gift to Lazao Kyrizogloy, a cast, which is entitled “Drunk sex”.

Source: thestival.gr

RESTAURANT DIASTAVROSI

The owners of this beautiful restaurant have done the space part of the ancient heritage anymore. Incorporated in the warm and inviting space in Hellenistic spirit that is spread throughout the region. Performances of ancient images, to top that of God who was worshipped especially in Atios Amphipolis. PA281627-OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

A great place to feel a bit from the ancient spirit of the region. The sense of the historical past is compounded by the performances of space. You can imagine the Athenian fleet close to the Iiwna. Invasion and conquest of Amphipolis course. On the South side of the Hill, in new Amphipolis all roads passing by the intersection. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

 

RESTAURANT AMFIPOLI

The restaurant of Yannis and Angeliki

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Friendly atmosphere, warm and willing people, dishes tended with the family way. Serves all hours, offering breakfast Serraϊko, coffee and lunch, with enthusiasm and great care. With views of the Museum and the visitors continued to suffer, Since it is situated a few meters across. IMGP0932

A historic restaurant in a historic place. Besides here you might see executives of the Ministry of culture, people who have touched the Caryatids, you have walked in the basement space of a large Mound and I have seen to the naked eye the extraordinary mosaic of 2400 years. People who have already entered the history book of ancient Greece, but also of world history, due to the semantics of m. Alexandrou.

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Interview with Theodore G. Antikas: “the female cremated with Philip II could be the daughter of the Scythian king Ateas”

By Mediterraneo Antiguo

Remains in the larnax of the main chamber.
Photo: Vergina: The Royal Tombs (Andronikos, 1984)

In 1977, Manolis Andronikos discovered a cluster of Temenid burials at Vergina, ancient Aegae, under the Great Tumulus. Tomb II was unlooted, doublé chambered and each chamber had a sarcophagus housing a gold larnax (casket) that contained the cremated bones of a man and a woman, respectively. The kings body was cremated in a great pyre, in the same way as epic heroes of the Iliad. A huge pile of half-burnt mud bricks, ashes, charcoal, and hundreds of burnt objects covered the whole length of the tomb's barrel-vaulted roof. The presence of this pyre was the clearest evidence that the CONTINUE THE READING

Article – Is the mother of Alexander the Great in the Tomb of Amphipolis? (Part IV)

I wrote my initial article on this question on the morning of 6th September, a day before the announcement of the discovery of the caryatids, and I wrote a second part on 20th September and a third part on 28th September dealing with the Caryatids. The discovery of the mosaic announced yesterday has prompted this fourth article, but in order to set it in context I first offer the following summary of the inferences I drew from the evidence available in my first three articles:

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Article – Is the mother of Alexander the Great in the Tomb of Amphipolis? (Part III)

I wrote my initial article on this question on the morning of 6th September (a day before the announcement of the discovery of the caryatids) and I wrote a second part, dealing with the caryatids and a few other issues on 20th September. In these two articles I drew a number of inferences from the evidence available:1) Sphinxes decorated the thrones found in the tombs of two mid to late 4th century BC queens of Macedon, one of whom was Alexander’s grandmother Eurydice I

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Article – Is the mother of Alexander the Great in the tomb at Amphipolis (Part II)

I wrote my initial article on this question on the morning of 6th September (a day before the announcement of the discovery of the caryatids) and I drew a number of inferences from the evidence then available:
1) Sphinxes decorated the thrones found in the tombs of two mid to late 4th century BC queens of Macedon, one of whom was Alexander’s grandmother Eurydice I
2) Greek mythology recognised Hera the wife of Zeus as the mistress of the sphinx: the 4th century BC Macedonian kings identified themselves with Zeus, so it would make sense for their principal queens to have
identified themselves with Hera

Interview with Francisco Javier Gómez Espelosin:

“the Greeks never saw Alejandro as a deliverer, but as a tyrant”

The figure of Alexander the great It marked a before and an after in ancient times. The Macedonian King changed the balance of power in the Mediterranean and opened the doors of the relations between East and West, giving rise to a cultural current of great vigor: the Hellenism. However, are relatively few historical sources about her figure, What has dyed his biography of a mythical aura amplified, above all, After the publication of the “Life and feats of Alejandro de Macedonia”, of the Pseudo-Callisthenes, of century III d.C. Ancient Mediterranean He wanted to delve into the personality of this character from the hand of Francisco Javier Gómez Espelosin, Professor of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares and author of one of the best biographies on Alejandro that you have written in recent times.

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Interview with Nicholas J. Saunders

the best qualified people to interpret Amphipolis tomb are the professional Greek archaeologists now excavating it

Access to the tomb, with two great sphynx. Photo: Hellenic Ministry of Culture

Regarding the great Amphipolis tomb, Greece, have been already written many lines, although the research team led by Katerina Peristeri has not finished yet the excavation of the site, discovered in 2012. Mediterráneo Antiguo has sought to find an authoritative voice, Nicholas J. Saunders, professor at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol, author of The tomb of Alexander in 2006, published in Spain by Editorial Planeta in 2007 and one of the most importants recent studies about the question of the tomb of Alexander the Great. Here is our conversation with him.

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