Ancient Macedonian Culture and Beliefs
The song is ΣΑΝ ΤΗΝ ΑΓΑΠΗ ΤΗΝ ΚΡΥΦΗ - San tin agapi tin kryfi (like the hidden love) by Eleftheria Arvanitaki (ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ ΑΡΒΑΝΙΤΑΚΗ).
Ancient Macedonian culture is the same as Ancient Greek culture. The same gods, the same beliefs, the same dress.
'Along with lavish display of every sort, Philip included in the procession statues of the twelve Gods brought with great artistry and adorned with a dazzling show of wealth to strike awe to the beholder, and along with these was conducted a thirteenth statue, suitable for a god, that of Philip himself, so that the king exhibited himself enthroned among the twelve Gods.'
(Diodorus Histories, Chapter 16, 95.2)
`Mount Olympus - Greece's most famous mountain range, home of the Olympian gods, towers 2,919m above the plains of Thessaly and Macedonia.'
(John S. Bowman, Sherry Marker, Frommer's Greece,p522)
`Aphrodite Hypolympidia (Below Olympia) was worshipped in a small, graceful temple where her cult-statue, now in the museum, was found. Dionysos was also honoured near the Hellenistic theatre, built, like the statium, by King Archelaos who caused the religious festivals to be enlivened with athletic and theatrical performances'
(Brian De Jongh, John Gandon. The Companion Guide to Mainland Greece, p156)
`When in Archaic times it was a sacred city, the earth-goddess Demeter, held sway. Her two small early temples (c.500 BC) were later replaced by a larger Hellenistic building. Subsequently, Zeus was dominant and the city was named after him (Dios is the genative of Zeus); at his sanctuary'
(Brian De Jongh, John Gandon. The Companion Guide to Mainland Greece, p156)
`Olympus is central to the identify of Zeus, and this may well derive ultimately from the strong commitment to worship of Zeus in Thessaly and Macedonia.'
(Ken Dowden, ZEUS, p58)
`Olympus is central to the identify of Zeus, and this may well derive ultimately from the strong commitment to worship of Zeus in Thessaly and Macedonia.'
(Ken Dowden, ZEUS, p58)
`At Dion, Archelaus instituted a festival to Zeus, including 'Olympian games' and dramatic contests in honor of Zeus and the Muses.'
Eugene Borza, in the Shadow of Olympus, p 173)
`Olynthos, the head of the Chalkidikian League, was a wealthy and populous city. Excavations there have uncovered both public buildings and luxurious private residences adorned with mosaics of black and white tesserae, among the earliest discovered in Greece.'
(Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos, Philip of Macedon, p107)
`The cults of Asklepios, the Nymphs, Artemis, Heracles Kallinikos and the river god Olganos are attested in Mieza.'
(Thomas Heine Nielsen, An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis p804)
`The Patron divinity of Pella was Athena Alkidemos. Among other cults, those of Apollo, Artemis, Asklepios,Dionysos, Zeus Meilichios, Heracles Kynagidas, the Muses and Pan are attested from epigraphic, literary and archeological sources.'
(Thomas Heine Nielsen, An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis p805)
The Australian Museum: Alexander The Great 2000 years of treasures
The Australian Museum: Alexander The Great 2000 years of treasures
The largest exhibition ever seen in Australia from the State Hermitage, Russia.
The exhibition will feature over 400 objects, spanning over 2000 years -- many seen in Australia for the first time.
Alexander The Great created one of the largest empires of the ancient world by the time he was only 32 years old. His accomplishments and influence on culture, religion and military strategy changed the world. Alexander The Great: 2000 years of treasures celebrates the man, his journey and legacy of one of history's most enigmatic and important figures through objects and works of art.
In 336 B.C., Alexander the Great became the leader of the Greek kingdom of Macedonia. By the time he died 13 years later, Alexander had built an empire that stretched from Greece all the way to India. That brief but thorough empire-building campaign changed the world: It spread Greek ideas and culture from the Eastern Mediterranean to Asia. Historians call this era the Hellenistic period.
Macedonia - The Louvre in Thessaloniki.
Macedonia - From the Louvre to Thessaloniki
Works from the Louvre exposed to five museums of Thessaloniki.
The anniversary of 100 years since the liberation of Thessaloniki city brought us some of the works of the Louvre, one of the most famous museums in the world. Projects are traveling for the first time in Greece and frame not one, but five of an equal number of exhibitions in museums in Thessaloniki. In Teloglion Arts Foundation opened the curtains this morning with reports of Louvre works in Thessaloniki. 81 rare exhibits of the French capital reveal a conversation with European artists of the ancient myths.
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Η επέτειος των 100 χρόνων από την απελευθέρωση της Θεσσαλονίκης έφερε στην πόλη μας μερικά από τα έργα του Λούβρου, ενός εκ των διασημότερων μουσείων του κόσμου. Είναι έργα που ταξιδεύουν για πρώτη φορά στην Ελλάδα και πλαισιώνουν όχι μία, αλλά πέντε συνολικά εκθέσεις στα ισάριθμα Μουσεία της Θεσσαλονίκης. Στο Τελλόγλειο Ίδρυμα Τεχνών άνοιξε το πρωί η αυλαία των εκθέσεων με έργα του Λούβρου στη Θεσσαλονίκη. 81 σπάνια εκθέματα του μουσείου της Γαλλικής πρωτεύουσας αναδεικνύουν τη συνομιλία Ευρωπαίων καλλιτεχνών με τους αρχαιολογικούς μύθους.
0AD helmet texture creation - part 2
Music: 0AD's soundtrack by Omri Lahav and Jeff Willet. -
Series following the creation of highpoly meshes done from modifications of lowpoly helmets made by Stanislas Dolcini (Stanislas69 in the forums) and baking all kind of maps from the highpoly meshes to create the final textures for the lowpoly helmets.
Workflow:
- Paint black and white texture that will be use later as a displace modifier.
- Duplicate the mesh. Use subsurf modifier and mark creases, add the displace modifier to the highpoly.
- Apply the displace modifier and refine the details sculpting.
- Use Dirty vertex color function to colorize vertex like a cavity map.
- Bake Ambient Occlusion, normal map, and Vertex colors to combine them in GIMP
0 A.D is a free, open-source RTS game of ancient warfare. You can download the current ALPHA version in the following link: