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baracuda
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Topic: UNESCOs Ongoing War Against Hellenism Posted: 13-Jun-2005 at 15:43 |
was reading something that someone posted on Columbos.. being Kristophoros Kolomvos.. and all.. this is from the same site and interesting...
I wont paste the text here the link is below..
http://www.grecoreport.com/UNESCO's_Ongoing_war.htm
whats your view?
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Posted: 14-Jun-2005 at 04:06 |
These are nationalist fascist morons. I suppose one finds this short of people in every country...
They step on a couple of correct points and totally misinterpret them to fit their ridiculus claims. If you say that "you don't make any sense because...." they reply: "what! so you disagree on this well-accepted point?" and as everyone knows, you can't win an argument with an idiot
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Posted: 14-Jun-2005 at 04:16 |
I know and agree.. but what about the 'points' that unesco has hypothesised to be of non-greek origin,
I would say that if we question a lot of things and keep objectivity there would be many such things that have been attributed to various people's of being wrong.. it would be interesting to find the real roots of some things..
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Posted: 14-Jun-2005 at 05:10 |
Originally posted by baracuda
I it would be interesting to find the real roots of some things.. |
There're no roots! If you keep digging you'll end up to the first multi-cell organisms that we can call "animals". These're the real roots!
One must not forget that there's no "parthenogenesis", we're all midgets on the shoulders of giants.
Take as example Greek sculpture. We all admire the plastic forms of classical and (even more) Hellenistic times. However by observing the archaic "Kouros" & "Kores" we see the resemblance to Egyptians forms. Later on the Greeks evolved these forms to reach an unprecedented level of perfection, but in the beginning they were influenced by earlier civilizations. Same goes with practically everything and for every important culture.
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Posted: 14-Jun-2005 at 09:54 |
I think that there is a golden mean. Of course we all know that all the races have common origins and our ancestors shared common needs and insticts. Greeks or Egyptians were not beings who came from another planet. The migration and the mixture of needs, knowledge and influences which were involved in each nation played significant role to the development of the civilizations. But trying to nulify what History says and show that everything is not as it is said, doesn't work. Middle-Eastern civilizations were the first which came up. Greek civilization was the basis of the development of the European-Western civlization and culture. What we have to do is to respect Greeks, Egyptians, Persians, Phoenicians and all these who made the man be something else but not a simple, uncivilized animal. All have a common source but not a common process and development.
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Posted: 14-Jun-2005 at 10:19 |
i checked this site out and do agree with some things they have posted... i dont agree with certain aspects of it trying to hellenize certain claims. The things that they say about America are true tho... and its very very sad.
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Posted: 14-Jun-2005 at 15:42 |
A good example of this "war" would be the topic in "Archeology news" about the finds of "the oldest civilization".
Sure as some claimed it is nothing more than a newpaper article, but it
does influence peoples view on history. (especially those that have no
knowledge on the topic)
It is a fact that the circulation of a long list of Indo-Gemanic,
Indo-Europeans, Nordic invasions...... theories have been developed by
a load of wanna-be historians/researchers that do everything in their
powers to claim a part of the ancient history.
Exactly how many non-Hellinic sites mention the finds in Hellas like
Dispilio, Nea Nikomedia, Frachti, Skopelos, Dimini, Sesclo.........of
Neolithic and older dates, then do a simple search on how many promote
the Black Athena joke.
Things may not be exactly as the author of the article presents nor is
Davlos magazine one of the most objective sources but he does make some
very good points.
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Posted: 14-Jun-2005 at 16:11 |
Black Athena?
Afrocentrism BS.....
One of the most recent jokes is how they were thinking of making Hannibal Barca played by Denzel Wahsington. This is ridiculous and futhermore it's just sad. Sad that because some people dont have a legacy they try to steal that of others.
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Posted: 27-Jun-2005 at 17:47 |
I dont know if Unvited Nation is in fact so ignorant of academic
accuracy, give the fact that there is a problem regarding to the site's
credibility.
But, anyway, if it the report is official, I am highly against it. It
was true that Hellenic civilization found its root from its neighbors
in the South, but one can not then claimed that Ancient Greece was
solely the product of the civilizations of Middle East. It distorts our
history, and overweights some part parts of world over others. This
kind of history results in biased and lost its neutrality.
About the controversial Black Athena, I found it as ridiculous as
invention of gunpowder claimed by some racist European historians.
I think Africans should look at how Canadian Aboriginal people, who are
proud of their cultures, and how their values have been integrated into
Canadian mainstream cultures. It is true that Canadians speak English
and French, but their political cultures are very different than that
of Europe and of America
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Posted: 14-Jul-2005 at 13:58 |
In a time when we know that a great deal of European genetic pool (all
of it eventually if we go back to Paleolithic times) is of SW Asian
origins I see no such big deal on the positions quoted by the author,
though they seem kind of raw and biased to be from a serious historian.
It's obvious that Greece and the Aegean was colonized by successive
waves of SW Asian colonists (as were in lesser degree large parts of
the rest of Europe). Those peoples weren't Greek-speakers (most
probably, there are some weird theories around) yet but they are the
genetic base of historical and modern Greeks (or Hellenes if you
prefer). Eventually Achaeans (Ionians, Myceneans) infiltrated in the
country from an unknown source (some point it in Anatolia, others in
the Balcans) bringing Greek language and a new historical phase to the
region. Still all the "civilization" structures were there from before
(Crete, Troy, Ezero) and it's also true that Greeks themselves accepted
to have borrowed many culture and science from other sources (Egypt
particularly). The merit of Greek civilization was not to have simply
conquered/destroyed all that but having been able to recycle it. Giving
birth to a new phase of cultural splendor that we are all owing to.
I don't think it's very constructive to pretend that pre-Achaean
civilizations were less Greek or European than Achaean (Mycenian) and
post-Achaean (classical Greek) ones. But it's obvious that those
peoples, while being the largely the ancestors of ulterior Greeks,
didn't spoke Greek. It's also obvious that Greece was a "bridge"
between Asia and Europe and that all or most influences and migrations
coming from SW Asia stopped in Greece first (this applies particularly
to the Neolithic-Calcolithic-Early Bronze period).
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Posted: 14-Jul-2005 at 15:33 |
Seems like I must have missed the part refering to Paleolithic migrations, anyway.
It's obvious that Greece and the Aegean was colonized by successive
waves of SW Asian colonists |
Obvious to whom and based on what research which facts?
J. Lawrence Angel studied skeletal material from the Paleolithic to modern times, and
participated in examinations of skeletal material throughout the East
Mediterranean. With respect to Greece, he found that the morphological
types already established in the third millennium BC, if not before
that, persisted in all subsequent ages. Thus, he emphasized the racial
continuity of Greeks, stating epigrammatically :
Racial continuity in Greece is striking.
We find that a large number of Anthropologists agree to this
conclusion, among them: Carleton S Coon, B. Gardner, S. Kimball, M.
Titiev.......
Eventually Achaeans (Ionians, Myceneans) infiltrated in the
country from an unknown source (some point it in Anatolia, others in
the Balcans) bringing Greek language and a new historical phase to the
region. |
Isn't this convenient?
What does unknown source mean, based on what archeological finds and
anthropological research can anyone support this, where was the
Hellinic language used before it allegedly arrived to this area, who
spoke it, why did the 'original' speakers 'migrate' to this area, how
did they manage to influence the already existing population that is
proven to have been large ?
These are just some of the many questions that such claims rise but
unfortunately for the supporters of these theories, no one can answer
them.
But it's obvious that those
peoples, while being the largely the ancestors of ulterior Greeks,
didn't spoke Greek. |
I fail to see how anyone can support this when the Linear A
inscriptions and those found in Dispilio (see topic in Archeologic
news) remain undeciphered.
Actually the theory about the Minoans and Myceneans was quite similar to what you state up to some decades ago.
Some 'historians' claimed that Linear B' is a totally alien language to
Hellinic, and these people must have been connected to Hittites and
Egypt. Unfortunately for them and their supporters, M. Ventris proved
it otherwise and another theory is where it belongs, in a dumpster.
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