Τό νέο ντοκιμαντέρ του National Geographic για τα 5.000 χρόνια Ελληνικού πολιτισμού
Ένα ντοκιμαντέρ κληρονομιά για τον παγκόσμιο πολιτισμό έχει ετοιμάσει το National Geographic για τιμήσει τα 5.000 ελληνικού πολιτισμού. Το ντοκιμαντέρ θα προβληθεί στο κανάλι του ομώνυμου σταθμού σε μία σειρά από επεισόδια τα οποία θα μας ταξιδέψουν στην αρχαία Ελλάδα.
Το ντοκιμαντέρ αυτό θα προβληθεί από την 1η Ιουνίου μέχρι τις 10 Οκτωβρίου 2016 για να δει όλος ο πλανήτης ποια ήταν η πολιτιστική προσφορά της χώρας μας στην σημερινή κοινωνία.
Το ντοκιμαντέρ αυτό έχει τον τίτλο The Greeks και πραγματικά αποτελεί μεγάλη τιμή γην Ελλάδα καθώς γίνετε και σε μία περίοδο που θα μπορούσε να βοηθήσει και να προβάλει την χώρα μας σε όλο τον κόσμο.
Δείτε το εισαγωγικό βίντεο που αναφέρει χαρακτηριστικά ότι οι αρχαίοι Έλληνες άλλαξαν τον κόσμο, δημιούργησαν πραγματική δημοκρατία μιλάει για τον γεωλογικό θησαυρό που έχουμε με τα χιλιάδες νησιά μας, την φιλοσοφία που είχαν ανάπτυξη και την προσέγγιση για την ζωή και τον θάνατο. Αλλά και τον ανθρωπισμό που υπήρχε και ήταν κάτι παραπάνω από απλά δημοκρατία.
«Αυτή είναι η ιστορία των Ελλήνων… Αγαμέμνων και Μέγας Αλέξανδρο»
The Greeks
Agamemnon to Alexander the Great: A stunning exhibition celebrating 5,000 years of Greek culture. Now Open.
About the Exhibition
This summer, National Geographic will bring an extraordinary cultural experience to Washington, D.C. THE GREEKS: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great is an exceptional journey through 5,000 years of Greek history and culture. This exhibition features more than 500 priceless treasures—many of which have never been on display outside of Greece. Washington, D.C. is the only east coast museum to host the exhibit. We expect to draw visitors from New York to Richmond for this exhibition, as it is the largest and most comprehensive survey of Greek culture in a generation.
Featuring collections from 22 national museums in Greece, THE GREEKS tells the unique story of one of the world’s greatest ancient civilizations. Visitors will encounter the early origins of Greek writing and art from the Cycladic and Minoan cultures of the Aegean, meet the Mycenaean rulers and priestesses, the warriors of Sparta, the heroes, athletes and philosophers of Classical Greece and Alexander, the king that would spread Greek culture throughout the world—giving rise to civilization as we know it. The exhibition explores pivotal moments that led to the birth of Western democracy, modern art, science, medicine, theater and sports.
In addition to this blockbuster exhibit, join National Geographic this summer as we host events celebrating all things Greek—talks, tastings, tours and toga parties, this event lineup is not-to-be-missed!
Exhibit Information
National Geographic Museum
1145 17th Street NW
Washington, D.C., US 20036
202 857 7700
Open Daily 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
June 1 – October 10
The museum will close early at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 2.
Farragut North or Farragut West Metro
The Greeks - Agamemnon to Alexander the Great
Pointe-à-Callière Presents the World Première of the Largest Exhibition on Ancient Greece Ever Produced in North America
The
exhibition spans over 5,000 years of Greek history and culture and
takes visitors on an exceptional and fascinating journey back to the
origins of the cradle of Western civilization, its heritage and the
traces it has left in the hearts and minds of the Greek people.
The
exhibition begins its North American odyssey in the country’s leading
archaeology museum before continuing to the Canadian Museum of History
in Gatineau, The Field Museum in Chicago and the National Geographic
Museum in Washington. It brings together more than 500 priceless
artifacts from 21 Greek museums, co-ordinated by the Hellenic Ministry
of Culture and Sports. For Pointe-à-Callière, this achievement is
another in the series of great international exhibitions it has produced
over the years, including Archaeology and the Bible – From King David to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Japan, introducing Montrealers and visitors to some of humanity’s most impressive treasures.
A fascinating period
Greek Antiquity is a rich
and spell-binding period, a time populated by mythical heroes and
historical figures, under the watchful gaze of the gods on Mount
Olympus. The exhibition is divided into six zones that introduce us to
this great civilization and showcase rare and priceless artifacts.
Visitors will meet many famous characters in Greek history, from Homer
to Aristotle, Plato, King Philip II of Macedon and King Leonidas of
Sparta. The heritage of ancient Greece, which we can still see all
around us today in our politics, philosophy, arts and literature,
mathematics, architecture, medicine and sports, is clearly illustrated
in the exhibition. Visitors are invited on a tour of Greek history,
starting in the 6th millennium BCE, explaining all these roots.
From Agamemnon and the siege of Troy...
We
learned about the exploits and adventures of the heroic and legendary
figures in the Trojan War through Homer’s epic poem the Iliad. Led by
Agamemnon, the Greeks sailed a thousand ships all the way to Troy, where
the Trojan Prince Paris was holding Helen captive. After laying siege
to the city for ten years, the Greeks left an unexpected gift outside
the gates: a giant wooden horse, filled with Greek soldiers. The
unsuspecting Trojans brought the horse inside the city walls, leading to
the fall of their city.
In the 19th century, German
archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, convinced that the accounts in the
ancient Iliad were historically accurate, found “Royal Tombs” at Mycenae
containing the remains of ancient elites and their fabulous grave
goods. Schliemann was in no doubt that these remains were in fact those
of Agamemnon’s. The exhibition showcases objects from the tombs of the
Grave Circle A, including two magnificent golden burial masks originally
attributed to Agamemnon. One of them, the original golden mask, has in
fact never been shown outside Greece before.
… to Alexander, larger than life
The
exhibition takes us all the way up to the days of Alexander the Great, a
larger-than-life figure who was only 20 years old when his father,
Philip II, was assassinated. But Alexander was ready to succeed him,
thanks to his education, his training and the formidable Macedonian
army. Within barely a single generation, the ancient world was
transformed from a series of independent city-states into a unified
empire under Alexander the Great. The young prince who became king,
emperor then god in the eyes of the world, died of a malignant fever at
the age of 32. But his legend survived, as did Greece’s extraordinary
legacy to the Western world.
The Golden Age of Ancient Greece
Between
these two crucial figures, the exhibition focuses on the Golden Age of
ancient Greece, in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, when philosophy,
theatre and the visual arts flourished, particularly in Athens. This was
also the birthplace, under Pericles, of Greece’s greatest gift to
humanity: democracy, government by the people. For the first time,
citizens could express themselves, debate issues and vote. The
exhibition also looks at the founding of the Olympic Games in 776 BCE,
when athletes converged in Olympia from all Greek city states to take
part in the Games.
Treasures of humanity
Among the
highlights of the exhibition are a number of items never before
displayed outside Greece: gold offerings from the royal tombs of
Mycenae, including the mask that Schliemann first associated with
Agamemnon, as well as a double-eagle necklace worn by one of the
deceased, dated to the 16th century BCE.
Elsewhere in the
exhibition, visitors will be able to admire a marble figurine from the
island of Amorgos in Cyclades, dating to the 3rd millennium BCE and a
superb ritual vase from Minoan Crete. There will also be bronze helmets
with gold funerary masks from the graves of the Bottiaean rulers, not to
mention a magnificent funerary vase illustrating the scene of Achilles
avenging the death of his friend Patroclus, from the island of Delos and
dating to the late 6th century BCE.
They will also see
sculptures of Homer and other famous historic figures, and a superb
votive relief to Asklepios, showing the god of medicine leaning on his
staff, around which a snake is coiled, accompanied by his children as he
receives the tributes of mortals whom he has cured. Lastly, there is a
magnificent gold wreath of Queen Meda featuring two incredibly lifelike
branches of myrtle, an aromatic plant, symbol of immortality, associated
with goddess Aphrodite.
A hands-on experience
The
exhibition offers visitors a whole range of interactives and items to
handle. They can touch different reproductions including a Cycladic
female figurine, a block of marble, a warrior’s helmet and a sword.
There are over twenty videos in the various exhibition zones, most of
them produced by the National Geographic Society, the Acropolis Museum
in Athens, the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens and the Canadian Museum
of History.
Complementing the exhibition
Many
activities have been organized in conjunction with the exhibition. A
free digital application designed by the New Media Laboratory of the
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Greek Studies at Simon Fraser
University in British Columbia will keep visitors informed before,
during and after their tour of the exhibition. There is also a
prestigious publication on the Greek collection, produced by the
Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports; a catalogue has also been
produced by the Canadian Museum of History, surveying the themes and the
key items in the exhibition. A number of major lectures will be given,
at both Pointe-à-Callière and the Université de Montréal in early 2015,
looking at major figures in Ancient Greece and archaeology issues. Tours
and visitor activities, the Port Symphonies, Greek Independence Day,
Greek cuisine on the menu at the Museum’s restaurant and films are just
some of the events and attractions surrounding the exhibition.
The Museum is featuring a number of activities and products relating to the exhibition: more information.
During its presentation from December 12, 2014 to April 26, 2015, 132 156 people visited this exhibition.
The Greeks – Agamemnon to Alexander the Great iis an exhibition produced by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education and religious Affairs (Athens, Greece), Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Archaeology and History Complex (Montréal, Canada), the Canadian Museum of History (Gatineau, Canada), The Field Museum (Chicago, USA), and the National Geographic Museum (Washington, DC, USA), with the support of the Government of Canada. The Embassy of Greece in Canada and the Embassy of Canada to Greece are working together to promote the exhibition.
