Dear friends,
This Letter to Mr President OBAMA was sent to me minutes ago! Being born in Heart of MACEDONIA I am responsible to get this letter sent out to my friends. I am not the one to tell you what is right or wrong. You have your opinion and you have to act after that, BUT I am the one to tell you: MY LANGUAGE, MY CULTURE AND MY TRADITION is not for SALE. I can commit crimes for my right to be what those who let me survive gave me the right to be FREEEEEEEEE and tel people my opinion.
Georgios
May 18, 2009
The Honorable Barack Obama
President, United States of America
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama,
We, the undersigned scholars of Graeco-Roman antiquity, respectfully
request that you intervene to clean up some of the historical debris
left in southeast Europe by the previous U.S. administration.
On November 4, 2004, two days after the re-election of President George
W. Bush, his administration unilaterally recognized the “Republic of
Macedonia.” This action not only abrogated geographic and historic
fact, but it also has unleashed a dangerous epidemic of historical
revisionism, of which the most obvious symptom is the misappropriation by the government in Skopje of the most famous of Macedonians, Alexander the Great.
We
believe that this silliness has gone too far, and that the U.S.A. has
no business in supporting the subversion of history. Let us review
facts. (The documentation for these facts [here in boldface] can be found attached and at: http://macedonia-evidence.org/documentation.html)
The land in question, with its modern capital at Skopje, was called Paionia in antiquity.
Mts. Barnous and Orbelos (which form today the northern limits of
Greece) provide a natural barrier that separated, and separates,
Macedonia from its northern neighbor. The only real connection is
along the Axios/Vardar River and even this valley “does not form a line of communication because it is divided by gorges.”
While it is true that the Paionians were subdued by Philip II,
father of Alexander, in 358 B.C. they were not Macedonians and did not
live in Macedonia. Likewise, for example, the Egyptians, who were
subdued by Alexander, may have been ruled by Macedonians, including the
famous Cleopatra, but they were never Macedonians themselves, and Egypt
was never called Macedonia.
Rather, Macedonia and Macedonian Greeks have been located for at least 2,500 years just
where the modern Greek province of Macedonia is. Exactly this same
relationship is true for Attica and Athenian Greeks, Argos and Argive
Greeks, Corinth and Corinthian Greeks, etc.
We do not understand how the modern inhabitants of ancient Paionia, who
speak Slavic – a language introduced into the Balkans about a millennium after the death of Alexander – can claim him as their national hero. Alexander the Great was thoroughly and indisputably Greek. His great-great-great grandfather, Alexander I, competed in the Olympic Games where participation was limited to Greeks.
Even before Alexander I, the Macedonians traced their ancestry to Argos, and many of their kings used the head of Herakles - the quintessential Greek hero - on their coins.
Euripides – who died and was buried in Macedonia– wrote his play Archelaos in honor of the great-uncle of Alexander, and in Greek. While in Macedonia, Euripides also wrote the Bacchai, again in Greek. Presumably the Macedonian audience could understand what he wrote and what they heard.
Alexander’s father, Philip, won several equestrian victories at Olympia and Delphi,
the two most Hellenic of all the sanctuaries in ancient Greece where
non-Greeks were not allowed to compete. Even more significantly,
Philip was appointed to conduct the Pythian Games
at Delphi in 346 B.C. In other words, Alexander the Great’s father and
his ancestors were thoroughly Greek. Greek was the language used by
Demosthenes and his delegation from Athens when they paid visits to Philip, also in 346 B.C.
Another northern Greek, Aristotle, went off to study for nearly 20 years in the Academy of Plato. Aristotle subsequently returned to Macedonia and became the tutor of Alexander III. They used Greek in their classroom which can still be seen near Naoussa in Macedonia.
Alexander carried with him throughout his conquests Aristotle’s edition of Homer’s Iliad. Alexander also spread Greek language and culture throughout his empire, founding cities and establishing centers of learning. Hence inscriptions concerning such typical Greek institutions as the gymnasium are found as far away as Afghanistan. They are all written in Greek.
The questions follow: Why was Greek the lingua franca all over Alexander’s empire if he was a “Macedonian”? Why was the New Testament, for example, written in Greek?
The answers are clear: Alexander the Great was Greek, not Slavic, and Slavs and their language were nowhere near Alexander or his homeland until 1000 years later.
This brings us back to the geographic area known in antiquity as
Paionia. Why would the people who live there now call themselves
Macedonians and their land Macedonia? Why would they abduct a
completely Greek figure and make him their national hero?
The ancient Paionians may or may not have been Greek, but they certainly became Greekish,
and they were never Slavs. They were also not Macedonians. Ancient
Paionia was a part of the Macedonian Empire. So were Ionia and Syria
and Palestine and Egypt and Mesopotamia and Babylonia and Bactria and
many more. They may thus have become “Macedonian” temporarily, but
none was ever “Macedonia”. The theft of Philip and Alexander by a land
that was never Macedonia cannot be justified.
The traditions of ancient Paionia could be adopted by the current
residents of that geographical area with considerable justification.
But the extension of the geographic term “Macedonia” to cover southern
Yugoslavia cannot. Even in the late 19th century, this misuse implied
unhealthy territorial aspirations.
The same motivation is to be seen in school maps
that show the pseudo-greater Macedonia, stretching from Skopje to Mt.
Olympus and labeled in Slavic. The same map and its claims are in
calendars, bumper stickers, bank notes,
etc., that have been circulating in the new state ever since it
declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. Why would a poor
land-locked new state attempt such historical nonsense? Why would it
brazenly mock and provoke its neighbor?
However one might like to characterize such behavior, it
is clearly not a force for historical accuracy, nor for stability in
the Balkans. It is sad that the United States of America has abetted
and encouraged such behavior.
We call upon you, Mr. President, to help - in whatever ways you deem
appropriate - the government in Skopje to understand that it cannot
build a national identity at the expense of historic truth. Our common
international society cannot survive when history is ignored, much less
when history is fabricated.
Sincerely,
Name, Title,
Institution
Harry C.
Avery, Professor of Classics, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
Dr. Dirk Backendorf. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz
(Germany)
Elizabeth C. Banks, Associate Professor of Classics (ret.), University
of Kansas (USA)
Luigi Beschi, professore emerito di Archeologia Classica, Università di
Firenze (Italy)
Josine H. Blok, professor of Ancient History and Classical Civilization,
Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
Alan Boegehold, Emeritus Professor of Classics, Brown University (USA)
Efrosyni Boutsikas, Lecturer of Classical Archaeology, University of
Kent (UK)
Keith Bradley, Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Professor of Classics,
Concurrent Professor of History, University of Notre Dame (USA)
Stanley M. Burstein, Professor Emeritus, California State University,
Los Angeles (USA)
Francis Cairns, Professor of Classical Languages, The Florida State
University (USA)
John McK. Camp II, Agora Excavations and Professor of Archaeology,
ASCSA, Athens (Greece)
Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, University of
Cambridge (UK)
Paavo Castrén, Professor of Classical Philology Emeritus, University of
Helsinki (Finland)
William Cavanagh, Professor of Aegean Prehistory, University of
Nottingham (UK)
Angelos Chaniotis, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College,
Oxford (UK)
Paul Christesen, Professor of Ancient Greek History, Dartmouth College
(USA)
Ada Cohen, Associate Professor of Art History, Dartmouth College (USA)
Randall M. Colaizzi, Lecturer in Classical Studies, University of
Massachusetts-Boston (USA)
Kathleen M. Coleman, Professor of Latin, Harvard University (USA)
Michael B. Cosmopoulos, Ph.D., Professor and Endowed Chair in Greek
Archaeology, University of Missouri-St. Louis (USA)
Kevin F. Daly, Assistant Professor of Classics, Bucknell University
(USA)
Wolfgang Decker, Professor emeritus of sport history, Deutsche
Sporthochschule, Köln (Germany)
Luc Deitz, Ausserplanmässiger Professor of Mediaeval and Renaissance
Latin, University of Trier (Germany), and Curator of manuscripts and rare
books, National Library of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Michael Dewar, Professor of Classics, University of Toronto (Canada)
John D. Dillery, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Virginia
(USA)
Sheila Dillon, Associate Professor, Depts. of Art, Art History &
Visual Studies and Classical Studies, Duke University (USA)
Douglas Domingo-Forasté, Professor of Classics, California State
University, Long Beach (USA)
Pierre Ducrey, professeur honoraire, Université de Lausanne
(Switzerland)
Roger Dunkle, Professor of Classics Emeritus, Brooklyn College, City
University of New York (USA)
Michael M. Eisman, Associate Professor Ancient History and Classical
Archaeology, Department of History, Temple University (USA)
Mostafa El-Abbadi, Professor Emeritus, University of Alexandria (Egypt)
R. Malcolm Errington, Professor für Alte Geschichte (Emeritus)
Philipps-Universität, Marburg (Germany)
Panagiotis Faklaris, Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Denis Feeney, Giger Professor of Latin, Princeton University (USA)
Elizabeth A. Fisher, Professor of Classics and Art History,
Randolph-Macon College (USA)
Nick Fisher, Professor of Ancient History, Cardiff University (UK)
R. Leon Fitts, Asbury J Clarke Professor of Classical Studies, Emeritus,
FSA, Scot., Dickinson Colllege (USA)
John M. Fossey FRSC, FSA, Emeritus Professor of Art History (and
Archaeology), McGill Univertsity, Montreal, and Curator of Archaeology,
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada)
Robin Lane Fox, University Reader in Ancient History, New College,
Oxford (UK)
Rainer Friedrich, Professor of Classics Emeritus, Dalhousie University,
Halifax, N.S. (Canada)
Heide Froning, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Marburg
(Germany)
Peter Funke, Professor of Ancient History, University of Muenster
(Germany)
Traianos Gagos, Professor of Greek and Papyrology, University of
Michigan (USA)
Robert Garland, Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the
Classics, Colgate University, Hamilton NY (USA)
Douglas E. Gerber, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies, University
of Western Ontario (Canada)
Hans R. Goette, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of
Giessen (Germany); German Archaeological Institute, Berlin (Germany)
Sander M. Goldberg, Professor of Classics, UCLA (USA)
Erich S. Gruen, Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics,
Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Christian Habicht, Professor of Ancient History, Emeritus, Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton (USA)
Donald C. Haggis, Nicholas A. Cassas Term Professor of Greek Studies,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)
Judith P. Hallett, Professor of Classics, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD (USA)
Prof. Paul B. Harvey, Jr. Head, Department of Classics and Ancient
Mediterranean Studies, The Pennsylvania State University (USA)
Eleni Hasaki, Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology, University
of Arizona (USA)
Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos, Director, Research Centre for Greek and Roman
Antiquity, National Research Foundation, Athens (Greece)
Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer, Prof. Dr., Freie Universität Berlin und
Antikensammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Germany)
Steven W. Hirsch, Associate Professor of Classics and History, Tufts
University (USA)
Karl-J. Hölkeskamp, Professor of Ancient History, University of Cologne
(Germany)
Frank L. Holt, Professor of Ancient History, University of Houston (USA)
Dan Hooley, Professor of Classics, University of Missouri (USA)
Meredith C. Hoppin, Gagliardi Professor of Classical Languages, Williams
College, Williamstown, MA (USA)
Caroline M. Houser, Professor of Art History Emerita, Smith College
(USA) and Affiliated Professor, University of Washington (USA)
Georgia Kafka, Visiting Professor of Modern Greek Language, Literature
and History, University of New Brunswick (Canada)
Anthony Kaldellis, Professor of Greek and Latin, The Ohio State
University (USA)
Andromache Karanika, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of
California, Irvine (USA)
Robert A. Kaster, Professor of Classics and Kennedy Foundation Professor
of Latin, Princeton University (USA)
Vassiliki Kekela, Adjunct Professor of Greek Studies, Classics
Department, Hunter College, City University of New York (USA)
Dietmar Kienast, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History, University of
Duesseldorf (Germany)
Karl Kilinski II, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Southern
Methodist University (USA)
Dr. Florian Knauss, associate director, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und
Glyptothek Muenchen (Germany)
Denis Knoepfler, Professor of Greek Epigraphy and History, Collège de
France (Paris)
Ortwin Knorr, Associate Professor of Classics, Willamette University
(USA)
Robert B. Koehl, Professor of Archaeology, Department of Classical and
Oriental Studies Hunter College, City University of New York (USA)
Georgia Kokkorou-Alevras, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University
of Athens (Greece)
Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of
Classical Studies, Brandeis University (USA)
Eric J. Kondratieff, Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient
History, Department of Greek & Roman Classics, Temple University
Haritini Kotsidu, Apl. Prof. Dr. für Klassische Archäologie,
Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/M. (Germany)
Lambrini Koutoussaki, Dr., Lecturer of Classical Archaeology, University
of Zürich (Switzerland)
David Kovacs, Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics, University of
Virginia (USA)
Peter Krentz, W. R. Grey Professor of Classics and History, Davidson
College (USA)
Friedrich Krinzinger, Professor of Classical Archaeology Emeritus,
University of Vienna (Austria)
Michael Kumpf, Professor of Classics, Valparaiso University (USA)
Donald G. Kyle, Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington
(USA)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Helmut Kyrieleis, former president of the German
Archaeological Institute, Berlin (Germany)
Gerald V. Lalonde, Benedict Professor of Classics, Grinnell College
(USA)
Steven Lattimore, Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of
California, Los Angeles (USA)
Francis M. Lazarus, President, University of Dallas (USA)
Mary R. Lefkowitz, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities,
Emerita, Wellesley College (USA)
Iphigeneia Leventi, Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology,
University of Thessaly (Greece)
Daniel B. Levine, Professor of Classical Studies, University of Arkansas
(USA)
Christina Leypold, Dr. phil., Archaeological Institute, University of
Zurich (Switzerland)
Vayos Liapis, Associate Professor of Greek, Centre d’Études Classiques
& Département de Philosophie, Université de Montréal (Canada)
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Professor of Greek Emeritus, University of Oxford (UK)
Yannis Lolos, Assistant Professor, History, Archaeology, and
Anthropology, University of Thessaly (Greece)
Stanley Lombardo, Professor of Classics, University of Kansas, USA
Anthony Long, Professor of Classics and Irving G. Stone Professor of
Literature, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Julia Lougovaya, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Columbia
University (USA)
A.D. Macro, Hobart Professor of Classical Languages emeritus, Trinity
College (USA)
John Magee, Professor, Department of Classics, Director, Centre for
Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (Canada)
Dr. Christofilis Maggidis, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Dickinson
College (USA)
Jeannette Marchand, Assistant Professor of Classics, Wright State
University, Dayton, Ohio (USA)
Richard P. Martin, Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in
Classics, Stanford University (USA)
Maria Mavroudi, Professor of Byzantine History, University of
California, Berkeley (USA)
Alexander Mazarakis Ainian, Professor of Classical Archaeology,
University of Thessaly (Greece)
James R. McCredie, Sherman Fairchild Professor emeritus; Director,
Excavations in Samothrace Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (USA)
James C. McKeown, Professor of Classics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(USA)
Robert A. Mechikoff, Professor and Life Member of the International
Society of Olympic Historians, San Diego State University (USA)
Andreas Mehl, Professor of Ancient History, Universitaet
Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)
Harald Mielsch, Professor of Classical Archeology, University of Bonn
(Germany)
Stephen G. Miller, Professor of Classical Archaeology Emeritus,
University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Phillip Mitsis, A.S. Onassis Professor of Classics and Philosophy, New
York University (USA)
Peter Franz Mittag, Professor für Alte Geschichte, Universität zu Köln
(Germany)
David Gordon Mitten, James Loeb Professor of Classical Art and
Archaeology, Harvard University (USA)
Margaret S. Mook, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Iowa State
University (USA)
Anatole Mori, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, University of
Missouri- Columbia (USA)
Jennifer Sheridan Moss, Associate Professor, Wayne State University
(USA)
Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Assistant Professor of Greek Art History and
Archaeology, Columbia University, New York (USA).
Richard Neudecker, PD of Classical Archaeology, Deutsches
Archäologisches Institut Rom (Italy)
James M.L. Newhard, Associate Professor of Classics, College of
Charleston (USA)
Carole E. Newlands, Professor of Classics, University of Wisconsin,
Madison (USA)
John Maxwell O'Brien, Professor of History, Queens College, City
University of New York (USA)
James J. O'Hara, Paddison Professor of Latin, The University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA)
Martin Ostwald, Professor of Classics (ret.), Swarthmore College and
Professor of Classical Studies (ret.), University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Olga Palagia, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Athens
(Greece)
Vassiliki Panoussi, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, The
College of William and Mary (USA)
Maria C. Pantelia, Professor of Classics, University of California,
Irvine (USA)
Pantos A.Pantos, Adjunct Faculty, Department of History, Archaeology and
Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly (Greece)
Anthony J. Papalas, Professor of Ancient History, East Carolina
University (USA)
Nassos Papalexandrou, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at
Austin (USA)
Polyvia Parara, Visiting Assistant Professor of Greek Language and
Civilization, Department of Classics, Georgetown University (USA)
Richard W. Parker, Associate Professor of Classics, Brock University
(Canada)
Robert Parker, Wykeham Professor of Ancient History, New College, Oxford
(UK)
Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi, Associate Professor of Classics, Stanford
University (USA)
Jacques Perreault, Professor of Greek archaeology, Université de
Montréal, Québec (Canada)
Yanis Pikoulas, Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History, University
of Thessaly (Greece)
John Pollini, Professor of Classical Art & Archaeology, University
of Southern California (USA)
David Potter, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Greek and Latin. The
University of Michigan (USA)
Robert L. Pounder, Professor Emeritus of Classics, Vassar College (USA)
Nikolaos Poulopoulos, Assistant Professor in History and Chair in Modern
Greek Studies, McGill University (Canada)
William H. Race, George L. Paddison Professor of Classics, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)
John T. Ramsey, Professor of Classics, University of Illinois at Chicago
(USA)
Karl Reber, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Lausanne
(Switzerland)
Rush Rehm, Professor of Classics and Drama, Stanford University (USA)
Werner Riess, Associate Professor of Classics, The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)
Robert H. Rivkin, Ancient Studies Department, University of Maryland
Baltimore County (USA)
Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Professor of Classics, The University of Vermont
(USA)
Robert H. Rodgers. Lyman-Roberts Professor of Classical Languages and
Literature, University of Vermont (USA)
Nathan Rosenstein, Professor of Ancient History, The Ohio State
University (USA)
John C. Rouman, Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of New
Hampshire, (USA)
Dr. James Roy, Reader in Greek History (retired), University of
Nottingham (UK)
Steven H. Rutledge, Associate Professor of Classics, Department of
Classics, University of Maryland, College Park (USA)
Christina A. Salowey, Associate Professor of Classics, Hollins
University (USA)
Guy D. R. Sanders, Resident Director of Corinth Excavations, The
American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Greece)
Theodore Scaltsas, Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy, University of
Edinburgh (UK)
Thomas F. Scanlon, Professor of Classics, University of California,
Riverside (USA)
Bernhard Schmaltz, Prof. Dr. Archäologisches Institut der CAU, Kiel
(Germany)
Rolf M. Schneider, Professor of Classical Archaeology,
Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität München (Germany)
Peter Scholz, Professor of Ancient History and Culture, University of
Stuttgart (Germany)
Christof Schuler, director, Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy
of the German Archaeological Institute, Munich (Germany)
Paul D. Scotton, Assoociate Professor Classical Archaeology and
Classics, California State University Long Beach (USA)
Danuta Shanzer, Professor of Classics and Medieval Studies, The
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Fellow of the Medieval Academy
of America (USA)
James P. Sickinger, Associate Professor of Classics, Florida State
University (USA)
Marilyn B. Skinner
Professor of Classics,
University of
Arizona (USA)
Niall W. Slater, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek,
Emory University (USA)
Peter M. Smith, Associate Professor of Classics, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)
Dr. Philip J. Smith, Research Associate in Classical Studies, McGill
University (Canada)
Susan Kirkpatrick Smith Assistant Professor of Anthropology Kennesaw
State University (USA)
Antony Snodgrass, Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology,
University of Cambridge (UK)
Theodosia Stefanidou-Tiveriou, Professor of Classical Archaeology,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece).
Andrew Stewart, Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies,
University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Oliver Stoll, Univ.-Prof. Dr., Alte Geschichte/ Ancient
History,Universität Passau (Germany)
Richard Stoneman, Honorary Fellow, University of Exeter (England)
Ronald Stroud, Klio Distinguished Professor of Classical Languages and
Literature Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Sarah Culpepper Stroup, Associate Professor of Classics, University of
Washington (USA)
Nancy Sultan, Professor and Director, Greek & Roman Studies,
Illinois Wesleyan University (USA)
David W. Tandy, Professor of Classics, University of Tennessee (USA)
James Tatum, Aaron Lawrence Professor of Classics, Dartmouth College
Martha C. Taylor, Associate Professor of Classics, Loyola College in
Maryland
Petros Themelis, Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology, Athens
(Greece)
Eberhard Thomas, Priv.-Doz. Dr.,Archäologisches Institut der Universität
zu Köln (Germany)
Michalis Tiverios, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Michael K. Toumazou, Professor of Classics, Davidson College (USA)
Stephen V. Tracy, Professor of Greek and Latin Emeritus, Ohio State
University (USA)
Prof. Dr. Erich Trapp, Austrian Academy of Sciences/Vienna resp.
University of Bonn (Germany)
Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Associate Professor of Classics, University of New
Hampshire (USA)
Vasiliki Tsamakda, Professor of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine
History of Art, University of Mainz (Germany)
Christopher Tuplin, Professor of Ancient History, University of
Liverpool (UK)
Gretchen Umholtz, Lecturer, Classics and Art History, University of
Massachusetts, Boston (USA)
Panos Valavanis, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of
Athens (Greece)
Athanassios Vergados, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Franklin
& Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Christina Vester, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of
Waterloo (Canada)
Emmanuel Voutiras, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Speros Vryonis, Jr., Alexander S. Onassis Professor (Emeritus) of
Hellenic Civilization and Culture, New York University (USA)
Michael B. Walbank, Professor Emeritus of Greek, Latin & Ancient
History, The University of Calgary (Canada)
Bonna D. Wescoat, Associate Professor, Art History and Ancient
Mediterranean Studies, Emory University (USA)
E. Hector Williams, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of
British Columbia (Canada)
Roger J. A. Wilson, Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire,
and Director, Centre for the Study of Ancient Sicily, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver (Canada)
Engelbert Winter, Professor for Ancient History, University of Münster
(Germany)
Timothy F. Winters, Ph.D. Alumni Assn. Distinguished Professor of
Classics, Austin Peay State University (USA)
Michael Zahrnt, Professor für Alte Geschichte, Universität zu Köln
(Germany)
Paul Zanker, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies, University of
Munich (Germany)
200 signatures as of May 18th 2009.
For the growing list of scholars, please go to the Addenda.
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H. Clinton, Secretary of State USA
P. Gordon, Asst. Secretary-designate, European and Eurasian Affairs
H.L Berman, Chair, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
I. Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
J. Kerry, Chair, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
R.G. Lugar, Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
R. Menendez, United States Senator from New Jersey.
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12 Scholars added on May 19th 2009:
Mariana Anagnostopoulos, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Fresno (USA)
John P. Anton, Distinguished Professor of Greek Philosophy and Culture University of South Florida (USA)
Effie F. Athanassopoulos, Associate Professor
Anthropology and Classics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)
Leonidas
Bargeliotes, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Athens,
President of the Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture (Greece)
Joseph W. Day, Professor of Classics, Wabash College (USA)
Christos
C. Evangeliou, Professor of Ancient Hellenic Philosophy, Towson
University, Maryland, Honorary President of International
Association for Greek Philosophy (USA)
Eleni Kalokairinou, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Secretary of the Olympic Center of Philosophy and Culture (Cyprus)
Lilian Karali, Professor of Prehistoric and Environmental Archaeology, University of Athens (Greece)
Anna Marmodoro, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (UK)
Marion Meyer, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Vienna (Austria)
Jessica L. Nitschke, Assistant Professor of Classics, Georgetown University (USA)
David C.Young, Professor of Classics Emeritus, University of Florida (USA)
10 Scholars added on May 20th 2009:
Maria Ypsilanti, Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, University of Cyprus
Christos Panayides, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Nicosia (Cyprus)
Anagnostis P. Agelarakis, Professor of Anthropology, Adelphi University (USA)
Dr. Irma Wehgartner, Curator of the Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität Würzburg (Germany)
Dr. Ioannis Georganas, Researcher, Department of History and Archaeology, Foundation of the Hellenic World (Greece)
Maria Papaioannou, Assistant Professor in Classical Archaeology, University of New Brunswick (Canada)
Chryssa
Maltezou, Professor emeritus, University of Athens, Director of the
Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Studies in Venice
(Italy)
Myrto Dragona-Monachou, Professor emerita of Philosophy, University of Athens (Greece)
David L. Berkey, Assistant Professor of History, California State University, Fresno (USA)
Stephan Heilen, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
3 Scholars added on May 21st 2009:
Rosalia Hatzilambrou, Researcher, Academy of Athens (Greece)
Athanasios Sideris, Ph.D., Head of the History and Archaeology Department, Foundation of the Hellenic World, Athens (Greece)
Rev.
Dr. Demetrios J Constantelos, Charles Cooper Townsend Professor of
Ancient and Byzantine history, Emeritus; Distinguished Research Scholar
in Residence at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (USA)
3 Scholars added on May 22nd 2009:
Ioannis M. Akamatis, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Lefteris Platon, Assistant Professor of Archaeology, University of Athens (Greece)
Lucia Athanassaki, Associate Professor of Classical Philology, University of Crete (Greece)
5 Scholars added on May 23rd 2009:
Georgios Anagnostopoulos, Professor of Philosophy, University of California-San Diego (USA)
Ioannes G. Leontiades, Assistant Professor of Byzantine History, Aristotle University of Thessalonike (Greece)
Ewen Bowie, Emeritus Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford (UK)
Mika
Kajava, Professor of Greek Language and Literature; Head of the
Department of Classical Studies, University of Helsinki (Finland)
Christian
R. Raschle, Assistant Professor of Roman History, Centre d’Études
Classiques & Département d'Histoire, Université de Montréal (Canada)
4 Scholars added on May 25th 2009:
Selene Psoma, Senior Lecturer of Ancient History, University of Athens (Greece)
G.
M. Sifakis, Professor Emeritus of Classics, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki & New York University (Greece & USA)
Kostas Buraselis, Professor of Ancient History, University of Athens (Greece)
Michael Ferejohn, Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Duke University (USA)
5 Scholars added on May 26th 2009:
Ioannis Xydopoulos, Assistant Professor in Ancient History, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Stella Drougou, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Heather L. Reid, Professor of Philosophy, Morningside College (USA)
Thomas A. Suits, Emeritus Professor of Classical Languages, University of Connecticut (USA)
Dr Thomas Johansen, Reader in Ancient Philosophy, University of Oxford (UK)
6 Scholars added on May 27th 2009:
Frösén Jaakko, Professor of Greek philology, University of Helsinki (Finland)
John F. Kenfield, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Rutgers University (USA)
Dr. Aristotle Michopoulos, Professor & Chair, Greek Studies Dept., Hellenic College (Brookline, MA, USA)
Guy MacLean Rogers, Kemper Professor of Classics and History, Wellesley College (USA)
Stavros Frangoulidis, Associate Professor of Latin. Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Yannis Tzifopoulos, Associate Professor of Ancient Greek and Epigraphy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
1 Scholar added on May 29th 2009:
Christos Simelidis, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Lincoln College, University of Oxford (UK)
3 Scholars added on June 2nd 2009:
Dr. Peter Grossmann, Member emeritus, German Archaeological Institute, Cairo (Egypt)
Eleni Papaefthymiou, Curator of the Numismatic Collection of the Foundation of the Hellenic World (Greece)
Evangeline Markou, Adjunct Lecturer in Greek History, Open University of Cyprus (Cyprus)
2 Scholars added on June 3rd 2009:
Aliki Moustaka, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
François
de Callataÿ, Professor of Monetary and Financial history of the Greek
world, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris/Sorbonne) and Professor
of Financial history of the Greco-Roman world, Université libre de
Bruxelles (France and Brussels)