Tag: Antiquity
New museum network “Antiquity in Bavaria” introduces itself – Munich
The new museum network “Antique in Bavaria” presents its first special exhibition on Romans, Celts, Greeks and Etruscans. Since Thursday, the cultural institutions in the Free State have been allowed…
200 years of Heinrich Schliemann: Frank Vorpahl’s new biography – culture
A life and striving as if it were invented by the Saxon fantasy Karl May, that is how it appears this Heinrich Schliemann from Ankershagen in Mecklenburg, who made it…
Heinrich Schliemann: The archaeologist was born 200 years ago – culture
Treasure hunters watch out: “Once such walls have been there, they cannot be completely destroyed, but are probably hidden under the dust and rubble of centuries.” – Those are the…
Working in antiquity: toiling spoils the character
Work through the ages Work spoils character – why work was frowned upon in ancient Greece The painter Raffael made the “School of Athens” for the Vatican. A number of…
Greeks used lignite 3300 years ago – knowledge
Tiryns: a huge castle complex on a 300 meter long and up to 30 meter high limestone cliff near the port city of Nauplion in the Peloponnese. According to legend,…
Parthenon Frieze: Lending to Athens – Culture
The Archaeological Museum in Palermo, Italy, lends a fragment of the Parthenon frieze of the Acropolis to Athens. This is how the German-speaking one reports Greece Newspaper and refers to…
Review of Stefan Rebenich’s book “The Germans and their antiquity” – culture
from Johan Schloemann It can get very gloomy when you look at how Germans used to refer to antiquity. The Spartan general Leonidas, who drove his soldiers to sacrificial death…
Cuvilliéstheater Munich: “The clouds, the birds, the wealth” – culture
You have to be very determined these days to want to go to the theater in Bavaria. 2 G plus applies at 25 percent occupancy. That is moderately attractive, for…
Theater of War: Exhibition “Salamis 480” in Munich – Culture
Plop, the Persians couldn’t swim. When their ships were rammed by the Greeks, they fell into the water in the strait near the island of Salamis, close to Athens and…
Largest silver find in Bavaria in Augsburg – Bavaria
Augsburg is the second oldest city in Germany after Trier: Its founding date goes back to the year 15 BC. At that time it was still an army camp of…