Ja für mich wirds peinlich ne??320 Professoren fordern sofort damit ihr mit euren Scheiss aufhört. Die werden getrost ignoriert, stattdessen picken wir ma wieder das raus was uns gefällt. Zoran du postest seit gut 1 Jahren immer die selben Autoren wie O'Shea und co. Der Rest wird ignoriert. Der einzige der sich hier zum Horst macht bist du mein Freund
Alles abzustreiten und es als Propaganda etc abzustempeln und das was dir in den Kram passt alá Black Athena etc als richtig zu sehen.
Idiot
Du ignorierst. So wird das jeder sehen der hier unseren kurzen Dialog verfolgt, denn wie ich sagte, absehbar, vorhersehbar, durchschaubar....
Hier noch mal einer der nicht unterschreiben will, und sagt viele seiner Kollegen wollen diesen lächerlichen politisierenden Kack nicht unterstützen.
Sei stolz auf diese 371 solange du noch kannst, am 16.10. vergeht dann genau ein Jahr seit dem kein Akademiker mehr sich auf der Webseite als neuer Unterschriebener hat verewigen lassen.
I have followed the evolution of Professor Stephen Miller's letter to President Obama since March. While there is good reason to deplore any nation's appropriation of Alexander the Great for nationalistic purposes,
the letter goes beyond that scholarly position to involve the author and co-signers on one side in an ongoing interstate dispute in the Balkans, and it seemed necessary to respond. I have done so:
http://astro.temple.edu/pericles/Letter.htm
with additional comments on Alun Salt's Archaeoastronomy website:
Macedonia: From bad to worse « Archaeoastronomy
At this point in the discussion, let me repeat that the most important mail I?ve received in the past two weeks comes not from professors but victims, or better, grandchildren of victims who were killed or tortured on both sides, equally horribly, in the 1940-1949 period. These sad posts illustrate the long shelf life ot torture. The pain of a tortured relative is transmitted through generations and remains alive today, damaging all efforts at analysis and argumentation. Resolving the problems posed by this set of memories, deeply imbedded north and south of the border, strikes me as a major challenge for all parties. I would like to see the dispute resolved without further pain.
In addition to criticisms -- some of which I've used in revising -- I've received a batch of positive communications since posting my letter, most notably from fine scholars in our field who refused to sign Prof. Miller's letter, but also from some who work on modern Greek history. In many ways, the best antidote to this letter would be a subscription to the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, published by the Modern Greek Studies Association in the USA. The Journal has published a number of serious critiques by Greek, British and American scholars of the extreme nationalist policy Prof. Miller advocates: one of the pities of the exercise is that the author and co-signers show no cognizance of these. (Nor do they show awareness of the impressive studies of ethnic development by scholars in our own field and in modern Greek studies.)
I'm interested in hearing from members of this list, if anyone wants to write.
Very truly yours,
Dan Tompkins
Temple University
