«Βοηθήστε την κυβέρνηση της ΠΓΔΜ να καταλάβει πως δεν μπορεί να οικοδομεί μία εθνική ταυτότητα εις βάρος της ιστορικής αλήθειας» αναφέρουν στην επιστολή τους οι ακαδημαϊκοί.

Με μία εντυπωσιακότατη κίνηση 220 ακαδημαϊκοί από όλο τον κόσμο και μέλη των πλέον φημισμένων πανεπιστημίων του εξωτερικού απέστειλαν προς την κυβέρνηση των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών της Αμερικής (ΗΠΑ) μακροσκελή επιστολή ζητώντας να εξασκήσει όλη της την επιρροή προς την κυβέρνηση των Σκοπίων για να σταματήσει η παραχάραξη της ιστορίας.
«Βοηθήστε την κυβέρνηση της ΠΓΔΜ να καταλάβει πως δεν μπορεί να οικοδομεί μία εθνική ταυτότητα εις βάρος της ιστορικής αλήθειας»

αναφέρουν στην επιστολή τους οι ακαδημαϊκοί. Ας σημειωθεί πως στην λίστα υπάρχουν ονόματα από καθηγητές των πανεπιστημίων του Πρίνστον, του Χάρβαρντ και την Οξφόρδης. Εκτός των ελληνικών ιδρυμάτων, οι επιφανείς ακαδημαϊκοί αντιπροσωπεύουν και πανεπιστήμια για παράδειγμα από την Γερμανία, την Ελβετία, την Ιταλία, την Αυστρία, τον Καναδά το Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο καθώς και
τις ΗΠΑ. Ας σημειωθεί δε πως οι υπογραφές δεν είναι μόνο Ελλήνων ή
ελληνικής καταγωγής ακαδημαϊκών , αλλά πραγματικά έχει λάβει παγκόσμιες διαστάσεις.
Στην επιστολή τους οι ακαδημαϊκοί απαντάνε σε όλα τα ερωτήματα σχετικά με το θέμα και φυσικά καταλήγουν πως δεν είναι δυνατόν μία χώρα, με την βοήθεια των ίδιων των ΗΠΑ, να παραχαράσει ιστορικά δεδομένα με σκοπό να δημιουργήσει την δική της ταυτότητα. Έτσι καλούνε την Ουάσιγκτον να διορθώσει τα «λάθη» της κυβέρνησης του Τ. Μπούς στο συγκεκριμένο θέμα. Για την παγκόσμια ακαδημαϊκή κοινότητα, είναι σαφές λοιπόν πως ο «Μέγας Αλέξανδρος ήταν Έλληνας, δεν ήταν Σλάβος, καθώς οι Σλάβοι και η γλώσσα τους κατέφθασαν στην περιοχή 1000 χρόνια αργότερα». Σημειώνουν δε και ζητούν η
κυβέρνηση των ΗΠΑ «να βρει τους κατάλληλους τρόπους, ώστε η κυβέρνηση των Σκοπίων να καταλάβει ότι δεν μπορεί να οικοδομηθεί μια εθνική ταυτότητα εις βάρος της ιστορικής αλήθειας. Η διεθνής κοινωνία δεν μπορεί να επιβιώσει, όταν η ιστορία είναι αγνοηθεί, πόσο μάλλον όταν η ιστορία είναι κατασκευασμένη».

Οι υπογραφές αυξάνονται καθημερινά καθώς έχει δημιουργηθεί ειδική
ιστοσελίδα (http://macedonia-evidence.org/) για το θέμα αυτό με όλες τις
λεπτομέρειες και τη συνέχιση της συλλογής υπογραφών.
Η επιστολή βρίσκεται στην διεύθυνση
http://macedonia-evidence.org/obama-letter.html

Letter to President Barack Obama

ancient-scholars@macedonia-evidence.org

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, Universita 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 Castren, 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, Koln (Germany)
> Luc Deitz, Ausserplanmassiger 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)
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> Studies and Classical Studies, Duke University (USA)
> Douglas Domingo-Foraste, Professor of Classics, California State
> University, Long Beach (USA)
> Pierre Ducrey, professeur honoraire, Universite 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 fur Alte Geschichte (Emeritus)
> Philipps-Universitat, 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 Universitat Berlin und
> Antikensammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Germany)
> Steven W. Hirsch, Associate Professor of Classics and History, Tufts
> University (USA)
> Karl-J. Holkeskamp, 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, College 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 UniversityHaritini Kotsidu,
> Apl. Prof. Dr. fur Klassische Archaologie, Goethe-Universitat,
> Frankfurt/M.
> (Germany)
> Lambrini Koutoussaki, Dr., Lecturer of Classical Archaeology, University
> of
> Zurich (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’Etudes Classiques &
> Departement de Philosophie, Universite de Montreal (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 UniversityMaria 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 fur Alte Geschichte, Universitat zu Koln
> (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 Archaologisches
> 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, Universite de Montreal,
> Quebec (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. Archaologisches Institut der CAU, Kiel
> (Germany)
> Rolf M. Schneider, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Ludwig-Maximilians-
> Universitat Munchen (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,Universitat
> 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.,Archaologisches Institut der Universitat
> zu
> Koln (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, PAChristina 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 Munster
> (Germany)
> Timothy F. Winters, Ph.D. Alumni Assn. Distinguished Professor of
> Classics,
> Austin Peay State University (USA)
> Ian Worthington, Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of History, University
> of Missouri-Columbia (USA)
> Michael Zahrnt, Professor fur Alte Geschichte, Universitat zu Koln
> (Germany)
> Paul Zanker, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies, University of Munich
> (Germany)
>
> 201 signatures as of May 18th 2009.
> For the growing list of scholars, please go to the Addenda.
> —————————
>
> cc: J. Biden, Vice President, USA
>
> 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.
>
> —————————
>
> Addenda
> 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)3
> 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)
>
>

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