The temple of Dionysus in Macedonia

Tymphaios

April 30, 2010

Lion’s marble foot from the temple of Dionysus


Αναδημοσίευση από το American Chronicle - http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/153366


Ruins of an ancient temple lie in an area of Macedonia known in ancient times as Crestonia. It lies between the modern Macedonian capital Thessaloniki and the town of Kilkis. The region took its name from its old Thracian inhabitants, a tribe called Crestones. Aristotle mentions a major temple to Dionysus near the land of the Bisaltians, another Thracian tribe that may have lived to the north of Crestonia. Two Greek inscriptions found in the precinct of the sanctuary are dedicated to Dionysus. One of them has been dated to the 5th C BC. Was this the "great and beautiful" temple of Dionysus near the land of the Bisaltians mentioned by Aristotle in his "Marvelous Accounts" (Περί Θαυμασίων Ακουσμάτων)?

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Tragedies of the abducted Greek children of 1948: the reality of the FYROM claims (Macedonia, Greece)

Tymphaios

November 16, 2009

In 1948, Cominform, the first official forum of the international communist movement since the dissolution of the Comintern, put into action a plan to take hostage to communist countries children from Greece during the Greek civil war. The aim was to re-educate the children as well as blackmail the populace and the Greek government towards reaching a settlement leading to a partition of Greece and the subsequent creation of an internationalist “Macedonian” Republic. This move has favoured by the Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz Tito and had been a Comitern policy aimed at destroying the national states of the Balkans through the creation of internationalist republics. Today several FYROM sources claim or at least believe the abducted children were FYROMacedonian. Indeed that they were not abducted, rather they were refugees fleeing the Greek army.

It was in the month of November 61 years ago when the United Nations issued a resolution condemning the abduction of the Greek children. The text of the resolution and its context have been presented in my last article. The tragic stories of the abducted children that follow defy belief.

Last week a conference took place at the University of Utah, sponsored by the United Pseudo-Macedonia Diaspora (UMD), a lobby group campaigning against “Greek atrocities” in Cyprus and other out of touch with reality issues. There was a display of venom the revisionism of history condoned by segments of the FYROM government and media. An eye-witness in the audience attempted to speak about her experience during the child abductions, probably the only person in the entire conference with any real experience from their own lives. The response from one of the Yugoslav speakers was:

“This poor woman had probably been drawn into a Greek family or circle years before, and in order to keep peace in the family had decided to play dumb when it came to her linguistic and ethnic identity. To an outsider it appeared to be quite the sad spectacle, for her Greek handlers to parade her out at an academic conference as some sort of living proof of the non-existence of her mother tongue and ethnicity.”

The rest of the article can be found in History-of-Macedonia.com

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