[MGSA-L] Dimitri Plantzos, "Amphipolitics"

[George Baloglou]

Kraounakis claimed the Amphipolis tomb to be Roman on TV and in passing,
within the last 5-8 days I would say; I personally witnessed that, but
unfortunately I do not recall any further details.

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:48 AM, akis gavriilidis <cr33396 at telenet.be>
wrote:

> Stamatis Kraounakis is a songwriter, and indeed occasionally a singer as
> well. He is also increasingly a public figure, expressing views about
> social and political issues, from a "leftist-patriotic" perspective so to
> say. But, as far as I know, he has not made any claims about the Amphipolis
> tomb, and googling "Κραουνάκης Αμφίπολη" gives no hits. Could you please
> provide the details? I would be interested.
>
>
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> *From: *"George Baloglou" <gbaloglou at gmail.com>
> *To: *"MGSA List" <mgsa-l at uci.edu>
> *Sent: *Saturday, October 11, 2014 8:00:38 AM
> *Subject: *Re: [MGSA-L] Dimitri Plantzos, "Amphipolitics"
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:56 PM, DANIEL P. Tompkins <pericles at temple.edu>
> wrote:
>
> ​[snip]
>
>
> It's hard not to like a guy who gets words like μάγκες
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangas> into an essay on archaeology.
>>
>
> ​Or terms like *γερογκρινιάρης ιστορικός* (this one in his 2012 ARB
> essay​ *Τα ορφανά του Αλέξανδρου*)* :-)
>
>
> ​More seriously now, we also need to look at the behavior of the other
> side, where μάγκες like archeologist Olga Palaggia (former collaborator of
> Eugene Borza)​ or singer Stamatis Kraounakis (a public supporter of public
> smoking, among many other things) state unequivocally, and without having
> visited the excavation site, that the Amphipolis grave is not Macedonian
> but Roman: either they or everybody else stand to lose face big time, we
> shall see...
>
> ​*this 2012 essay is available online at ​http://www.academia.edu/2633005/,
> and so is the current one at http://athensreviewofbooks.com/?p=1333
>
>
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> Γιώργος Μπαλόγλου -- Θεσσαλονίκη
>
> http://www.oswego.edu/~baloglou (1988 - 2008)
>
> http://crystallomath.wordpress.com (2009 - )
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