Exhibition 'The Greeks: From Agamemnon to Alexander the Great' opens in Shanghai

 

 

 

 

The exhibition "The Greeks: From Agamemnon to Alexander the Great" opened its doors at the World Expo Museum in Shanghai, China on Wednesday, where it will remain until October 2025. The exhibition is yet another landmark in Greek-Chinese cultural exchanges, which reflect the keen interest of the Chinese public in Greek culture.

It was inaugurated on Tuesday morning, in the presence of the Greek Ambassador to China Dr. Eugenios Kalpyris, the Greek General Consul in Shanghai Georgios Parthenios, the museum's director Liu Wentao and the deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism, Jin Lei. The exhibition was organised by the Greek culture ministry and the World Expo Museum, with the support of the Greek embassy in China.

 

The exhibition features 270 artifacts of ancient Greek sculpture, artwork and jewellery, from 14 Greek museums and collections. Before being displayed in Shanghai, it had very successful runs at the Hunan Museum (December 2023-May 2024), the Nanjing Museum (June-November 2024) and the Capital Museum in Beijing (December 2024-May 2025).

 

Athens – Macedonian News Agency

Modern historians about Macedonia – John Maxwell O’Brien

 

To underline his role as avenger and hegemon of the Corinthian League, and perhaps in the hope that the Athenians would come to share in the fantasy of this as a war of revenge, Alexander selected 300 full sets of armor from dead Persians and ordered them to be sent back to Athens and dedicated to Athena on the Acropolis. The attached inscription read:

“Alexander son of Philip and the Greeks, except the Lacedaemonians,106 set up these spoils from the barbarians dwelling in Asia” (A.1.16.7).

Alexander the Great:The Invisible Enemy by John Maxwell O’Brien, page 62