(The title of their coming out event should sound an alarm to Hellenes everywhere since talks surrounding the issue of the name are at a crucial stage. What is most entertaining though, is that they are trying desperately to adopt anything that is Greek, when the whole planet knows that the Slavs only moved to this area in the Balkans 600 years after Alexander the Great's reign).
The latest structures to be included in this circus even include the legendary nine muses! Yes, believe it or not, in their bizarre little world FYROManians will now be educated that Zeus is not Greek, he is a Slav and his daughters - the nine Muses- are also FYROManian! How ridiculous and outrageous is that?
According to reports, the molding of the nine bronze sculptures as well as the additional lion statues will be made by the RZ-Institute, while the cost of the sculptures is 412 thousand euros. The artists of the sculptures of the nine muses are Zarko Basevski, Ibrahim Bedi and Bogoja Angelkoski while the artist of the sculpture of the lions is Miroslav Slavkovic.
Also, and aside from the Alexander the Great statue, Philip of Macedonia, etc., a new colonnade, part of yet another monument called "Independent Macedonia [sic!]" is also being constructed on the left bank of the Vardar river. The complete monument includes an amphitheater within the ancient Greek styled colonnade. A report on MacedoniaHellenicLand.Eu said that it is going to be built by the DG-Beton firm, and the contract value is approximately 880 thousand euros. It is going to be eight feet tall and placed between FYROM's Agency of Electronic Communications and the Financial Police.
What does the Greek Foreign Ministry have to say about this?
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This from Wikipedia:
The Muses in Greek mythology, poetry and literature, are the goddesses of the inspiration of literature, science and the arts. They were considered the source of the knowledge, related orally for centuries in the ancient culture that was contained in poetic lyrics and myths.Source:
The Muses, the personification of knowledge and the arts, especially literature, dance and music, are the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (who was memory personified). Sometimes they are referred to as water nymphs, associated with the springs of Helicon and with Pieris.
The Muses were both the embodiments and sponsors of performed metrical speech: mousike (hence the English term "music") was just "one of the arts of the Muses". Others included Science, Geography, Mathematics, Philosophy, and especially Art, Drama, and inspiration.
http://www.macedoniahellenicland.eu/content/view/4261/77/lang,el/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse
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