The schoolgirl achieved top marks in her class and won the right to carry the flag. She has refused to step down and the next two students in line say they will not replace her so as not to give the impression they stirred up the matter.
This is the latest in a spate of similar incidents that seem to be snowballing, with the parade — marking the anniversary of Greece’s entry into World War II — still over a week away. On Monday, an Albanian schoolgirl in a Peloponnesian village put an end to the sit-in protest by her classmates when she decided not to carry the Greek flag.
Jeg skriver ikke så tit om nye arkæologiske enkeltfund fra antikken her på bloggen. Men fundet af en bronzestatue 450m under havets overflade ved Kythnos i Kykladerne har fået os alle hernede i Athen til at snakke. Et fantastisk fund, der kan føjes til den stigende mængde af originale, klassiske bronzer, vi har bevaret.
Pressemeddelsen er naturligvis kortfattet:
This newly discovered ancient bronze statue of a naked youth, believed to represent an athlete, is shown in this photo released by the Ministry of Culture. The 1.43-meter-high work was accidentally caught in the nets of a fishing trawler last Thursday to the west of the island of Kythnos, in the Cyclades, at a depth of some 450 meters. The trawler’s captain handed the find over to Lavrion port authorities on Friday, and it is now being conserved.
[Fra Kathimerini].
Et fascinerende fund - den såkaldte “Sky Disk of Nebra”, dateret ca. 1600 f.v.t. - bliver nu udstillet i Halle, sammen med en række andre repræsentationer af universet fra bronzealderen, bl.a. den danske solvogn.
The 3,600 year old Sky Disk of Nebra — the world’s oldest image of the cosmos — is the centerpiece of the biggest Bronze Age show of Europe, in the eastern German town of Halle.
It caused a world-wide sensation when it was brought to the attention of the German public in 2002, having been discovered in the state of Saxony-Anhalt two years earlier.
Now the Sky Disc of Nebra — a bronze disc with gold-leaf appliques representing the sun, moon, stars and a ship — is back in the limelight, at the opening of a blockbuster show entitled “The Forged Sky: The Wide World in the Heart of Europe 3,600 Years Ago.”
Fundet blev gjort af to gravrøvere i 1999, og blev først beslaglagt i 2002 gennem de sædvanlige kanaler i Svejts. Det er naturligvis et fantastisk fund, der har boostet de nationale følselelser i Tyskland omkring bronzealderen og igangsat den gængse handel i reproduktioner (alt fra kager til smykker).
Hele sagen er indsmurt i en kamp om rettigheder og autenticitet (pænt gemt til sidst i artiklen):
On the other hand, the disc’s popularity can’t stanch the flood of lawsuits that followed its discovery. Although the copyright case was decided in favor of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, there is still a suit before the Halle appeals courts against two suspected fencers from North Rhine Westphalia who claim the Sky Disc is a fake that was found outside of Germany.