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From Hercules to Alexander: The Legend of Macedonia

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An exhibition on the ancient Macedonian royal lineage of Alexander the Great that presents evidence that his family and kingdom were firmly rooted in the culture and civilisation of ancient Greece will open in Oxford this April.

Titled: “From Hercules to Alexander: the Legend of Macedonia,” the exhibition will run from April 7th until August 29th. It features exhibits currently held at the Aigai Museum in northern Greece that have never before been allowed out of the country.

According to archaeologist Angeliki Kotaridis who worked on the digs at the palace in Aigai, it contains a: “series of finds which prove that Alexander the Great did not just spring out of nowhere to take over the whole world. He was a scion of the Temenides dynasty that ruled the Macedonian kingdom for three and half centuries and who were ‘descendants’ of Hercules and Zeus.”

The exhibition narrative will start from the genealogical tree claimed by the ancient Macedonian kings, stemming from Zeus and Hercules and reaching to Alexander the Great’s son, Alexander IV. It will not be academic in nature but will use all types of audiovisual media including video, photomosaics, 3-D digital reconstructions, and more.

The five sections of the exhibition are the following: the Temenides dynasty; War and hunting; Princesses, Queens and High Priestesses, the role of women in the Macedonian Court; the Symposium, a central event in the life of Macedonians; Aigai, the building plan of Philip II and the Palace.
Among the exhibits will be a marble bust of Alexander from Pella; the only find that does not originate from Aigai, and portraits of Philip and Alexander from the gold and ivory mortuary couch found in the royal tombs at Vergina.

Quelle: Greekreporter.com


Vom 7. April bis zum 29. August werden im Ashmolean Museum in Oxford mehrere makedonische Artefakte vorgestellt, die aus dem Aigai Museum stammen.

Die Ausstellung wird nicht nur rein akademisch sein, sondern auch audiovisuell mit Video-Animationen, 3D-Rekonstruktionen und Dia-Projektionen.



Hippokrates
 
hippokrates schrieb:
It features exhibits currently held at the Aigai Museum in northern Greece that have never before been allowed out of the country.
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Wenigstens stellen die Engländer hier nicht irgendwelches gestohlene Zeug aus! Andererseits muss man ihnen aber auch zugute halten, dass sie wohl kaum auf die Idee kämen zu behaupten, Alexander der Grosse stamme von den alten Jüten ab. Wenn nur alle Europäer so wären. :roll:

Heraclius
 
Heraclius schrieb:
Wenigstens stellen die Engländer hier nicht irgendwelches gestohlene Zeug aus! Andererseits muss man ihnen aber auch zugute halten, dass sie wohl kaum auf die Idee kämen zu behaupten, Alexander der Grosse stamme von den alten Jüten ab. Wenn nur alle Europäer so wären. :roll:

Heraclius
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Es gibt nur eine einzige "spezielle Sonderspezies", die solch einen Schmarn behauptet. Damit müssen wir uns nicht weiter befassen, denn dies soll kein Comedy-Thread werden. ::lol:

Die Oxford-Ausstellung soll ein Vorgeschmack auf die Louvre-Ausstellung werden. Ich bin über die Initiative sehr erfreut.



Hippokrates
 
hippokrates schrieb:
Es gibt nur eine einzige "spezielle Sonderspezies", die solch einen Schmarn behauptet. Damit müssen wir uns nicht weiter befassen, denn dies soll kein Comedy-Thread werden. ::lol:

Die Oxford-Ausstellung soll ein Vorgeschmack auf die Louvre-Ausstellung werden. Ich bin über die Initiative sehr erfreut.
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Alexander the Great exhibition to give insight into man who conquered world

Hundreds of ancient Macedon artefacts unseen outside Greece to be shown at Oxford's Ashmolean museum.

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Alexander the Great fighting in the Battle of Issus, 333BC, from the House of the Faun, Pompeii. Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS

An exhibition of more than 500 objects, most of them never before seen outside Greece, is set to rewrite knowledge of the Macedonian civilisation that brought forth Alexander the Great – the man who conquered most of the known world, from Greece to Egypt, Afghanistan and India, in the 4th century BC.

A magnificent array of objects, from intricate golden crowns to finely sculpted heads, will travel to the Ashmolean in Oxford this spring, for the first major archaeological exhibition to be held in the museum's newly expanded galleries.

The exhibition, Heracles to Alexander the Great, will show the fruits of recent excavations in Aegae, the ancient capital of Macedon. Artefacts in the exhibition will include objects from the burial tomb of the powerful King Philip II, Alexander's father, and his son, Alexander IV – and splendid jewellery and ornaments from the tombs of various Macedonian queens.

Some of the most revelatory objects in the exhibition are portrait heads. Unlike the idealised faces of classical Athens, they show furrowed brows, wrinkles and laughter lines and may transform understanding of the history of portraiture. "The Macedon of Philip II is the birthplace and birth-time of realistic portraiture," said Dr Angeliki Kottaridi, the lead curator of the exhibition and the director of excavations at Aegae.

Among these sculpted heads will be a portrait of Philip II, with a remarkably lived-in face and crinkly eyes. And even more intriguingly, there will be a set of lifesize and lifelike terracotta heads that are, according to Kottaridi, "absolutely unique". Twenty-six were found, by Kottaridi herself, in the grave of a Macedonian queen dating from about 500BC.

Dr Susan Walker, keeper of antiquities at the Ashmolean, speculated that these remarkable objects could seen as forebears of the kind of elaborate Hellenistic portraiture created in Alexandria centuries later, which in turn influenced Roman "true" portraiture.

From the tomb of Philip II comes not only his royal crown but items belonging to a woman, thought by Kottaridi to be the Thracian princess Meda of Odessa, one of his wives.

Kottaridi believes she may have committed suicide, according to Thracian practice, so as to serve her husband in death as well as life. Her beautiful, highly wrought golden crown from the tomb is, said Kottaridi, "one of the masterpieces of the exhibition".

The exhibition will show how an introverted, small tribal kingdom – mythologically founded by the descendants of Heracles – was, said Walker, gradually "drawn into the wider world, developing relationships on the eastern side of the Aegean and forming a key relationship with Athens, which it eventually pushed out of the region".

"For the first time we will be able to see where they were coming from; put the archaeology against the history, look at how they dressed and how they died," said Walker. "We are so focused on the history of Athens that we completely underestimate the Macedonians."

Heracles to Alexander the Great is at the Ashmolean museum, Oxford, from 7 April to 29 August.

Quelle: Guardian.co.uk



Hippokrates
 
Solche ausstellungen sind schon lang fällig.Gleich 2 große für dieses jahr?Super;)
 
Ay ve yildiz schrieb:
war alexander der große grieche oder mazedonier ?
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Alexander der Große war ein Makedone, so wie König Leonidas Spartaner war und Perikles ein Athener.

Sie alle waren Hellenen.

Ay ve yildiz schrieb:
sind mazedonier griechen ?
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Die heutigen Makedonen sind immernoch Griechen. Falls du aber die Fyromer/Skopjaner/Bürger aus der ehemaligen jugoslavischen Republik damit meinst, diese sind immernoch Slaven.



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