Alexander the Great's "Crown," Shield Discovered?

National Geographic News ^ | 4-23-2008 | Sara Goudarzi

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Greek village of Vergina"

Heh-heh, they said "Vergina."

[Rudder]

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[mkjessup]

Ahhh Greek culture.

Alexander the Great, what a leader.

Those Greeks sure knew how to separate the men from the boys, eh?

Wonder how they did that, eh?

_____________ <— insert way too obvious punchline here. ;)

[AnalogReigns]

Alexander's shield?

Just "Wow!"

[fieldmarshaldj]

Rosario Dawson was the only good reason to watch that “Alexander” movie. I’d post the pics, but I’d get banned. ;-D

I’m still trying to figure out why Angelina Jolie as Alexander’s twisted mother had a thick Hungarian accent in it. I thought she was playing a Gabor sister.

[Revolting cat!]

Elaine Benes: "Fake, fake fake!"

[AnalogReigns]

His helmet???

[Revolting cat!]

why Angelina Jolie as Alexander’s twisted mother had a thick Hungarian accent in it.

Evidently, research had revealed that Alexander's mom hailed from the Pest side of Budapest.

[Perdogg]

How much did one of those ancient battle swords weigh ?

[Rudder]

Ahhh...pictures!

Attaboy!

[kitchen]

Read related story: "Alexander the Great Conquered City via Sunken Sandbar" [May 15, 2007].

Any relation?

[blam]

Read it here.

[mkjessup]

I’m still trying to figure out why Angelina Jolie as Alexander’s twisted mother had a thick Hungarian accent in it. I thought she was playing a Gabor sister.

C'mon dahlink, she was just auditioning for the big screen revival of the Eddie Albert classic,Green Acres

After all, it IS 'in' to be Green, true?

[yankeedame]

A little FYI:

Before he came on the scene carvings of the movers and shakers of the ancient western world were fashioned thus:

Neck, head, shoulders,etc., everything straight as a...well, straight as a statue.

But Alexander the Great was slightly deaf in one ear. He always tilted his head a bit so he could hear better. And he was sculpted that way:

As a result of this statues and busts began to show movement. At first it was out of respect to Alexander, but soon b/c people simply preferred them that way.

And that's fair dinkum.

[SunkenCiv]

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[DieHard the Hunter]

> I’m still trying to figure out why Angelina Jolie as Alexander’s twisted mother had a thick Hungarian accent in it. I thought she was playing a Gabor sister.

If I had to hazard a guess, the producers probably modeled Jolie’s accent after the modern Macedonian accent.

I spent an interesting ANZAC dinnertime yesterday at the RSA with a table that included a fireman originally from Macedonia. He had a “-ski” surname, which led me to guess he was from Poland (nope: Macedonia). Very striking facial features, olive skin, tall and athletic, curly brown hair. The girls at the table obviously thought him to be very handsome. If you spray-painted him white and told him to stand still, he could have been mistaken for an ancient Greek statue.

Apparently, tho’, modern Macedonia is somewhat to the north of antient Macedonia, so the eastern European accent probably wouldn’t have applied back then.

[Ezekiel]

Melek Javan ping.

[eleni121]

Modern self styled “Macedonia” has absolutely nothing to do with any aspect of the ancient Greek Macedonia.