‘Antiquization’
25 / 08 / 2009
The Slavs of Skopje (excluding Albanians), just like the Turks glorifying Homer or Herodotus because they were born is what is now part of the Turkish state!
What a great word!
That’s how critics are describing “Macedonia’s” campaign to appropriate Alexander the Great — they’ve named the airport and the main highway to Greece after him, named the national stadium for his father, and coming soon is “a 72-foot-tall marble colossus of Alexander astride his favorite warhorse, Bucephalus, which will dominate the skyline of the capital, Skopje.”
The funny thing, of course, is that “Macedonians” are Slavs, Bulgarians basically, so they have no connection to Alexander other than their ancestors having relatively recently moved to the real estate he used to rule. And yet they’re holding him up as some sort of font of legitimacy — it’s almost like Turks glorifying Homer or Herodotus because they were born is what is now part of the Turkish state!
[Mark Krikorian]
25 / 08 / 2009 | Tags: Alexandre the Great, Ancient Greece, Skopje, Slavs |
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