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Thank you, Pauline, for your very useful summary. I heard a half of the program and I admit that I had the same impression as Olga Palagia on the later dating of the Karyatids (however poor an expert I am )!

Till now, the supposition of agesilaos (the tomb as a reburial of 'Rhesus') seems to me the best one.

I'm amazed by the news (published in the same link you posted here) that in Amphipolis tomb they found also a skeleton of a man. Did I understand well (it is written in Greek)?

Thaleia is very nice and also in a good state of preservation, as well as her sisters Muses! I read (in youTube) that the city will be submerged by a dam. Do you know anything more about those news?
Thanks for sharing!

Thank you Pauline, for posting this article. I didn't know quite nothing about Pydna and its excavations and finds. I'm amazed by the two anthropomorphic statues, especially the second. But I can see them only today, because yesterday when I tried to go to zougla.gr there were other articles (one wi...

I never get tired to watch beautiful photos of Greek art and archaeology! Thank you for posting this link!

This Caryatid seems to be more archaic (or better archaistic) than the ones on Athenian Acropolis. Isn't it?

I don't remember where, but I found once in a book that Arsinoe (Ptolemy's mother) was Philip's cousin: obviously I cannot quote any ancient source.

I would like to know the dimensions of this lion. Is it bigger or not than Chaeroneia's Lion? May someone put a photo of this latter, near the Amphipolis' Lion? Thank you!

Wow! Now I realize it's as big as Hadrian's Mausoleum in Rome!
Thank you for posting it.

Yes Thebes has a very interesting museum, but more interesting (for me) are the Linear B tablets, found only twenty years ago, with a mention of MA GA (ie. 'Mother Earth') that was deciphered comparing this form with a similar form in Aeschylus! As for th ancient Greek music, it's lovely to heard th...

I wish I could hear even few words spoken by an ancient Greek! Perhaps I'd been able to understand nothing, perhaps only a word out of ten, but it would be so exciting! I remember the first time I went in Greece and asked to a driver were was his coach going and he answered : 'Dhelphoùs' (ie. to Del...

This archeological find is very interesting: I would like to see it directly! In a way it remind me of Athenian 'ostraka', though there was not uncommon to write names of drink companions on a cup, or dedicate a cup to someone. Thanks for sharing!

Very interesting photos and news about a place so important for philosophy and history of Mankind! It seems that Aristotle went early: he didn't know the development of today Athens would be precisely where he placed his school. Now every time I watch TV news from Greece, there it :D is shown platia...

Your remark is sound, but more in theory than in practice, because in Archaic alphabets the spelling follows from close up the pronunciation whenever it's possible. But aftewards the form of written words became more stabilized and even if people called Krateas 'Kratias' (as in Boeotia) only few ins...