Macedonian woman, North Macedonia, by Bojan Petkovski
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The word “Slavs” in the Slavic languages
Old Church Slavonic: Словѣне (Slověne)
Ukrainian: Слов’яни (Slovjany)
Slovak: Slovania
Czech: Slované
Polish: Słowianie
Kashubian: Słowiónie
Silesian, Lower Sorbian: Słowjany
Upper Sorbian: Słowjenjo
Slovene: Slovani
Serbian, Macedonian: Словени (Sloveni)
Montenegrin: Словјени (Slovjeni)
In these languages the pronunciation of the root has shifted from /o/ to /a/:
Russian, Belarusian, Rusyn: Славяне (Slavjane)
Bulgarian: Славяни (Slavjani)
Croatian, Bosnian: Slaveni
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AI is deciphering a 2,000-year-old 'lost book' describing life after Alexander the Great
A 2,000-year-old "lost book" discussing the dynasties that succeeded Alexander the Great may finally be deciphered nearly two millennia after the text was partially destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and, centuries later, handed off to Napoleon Bonaparte.
The reason for the breakthrough? Researchers are using machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, to discern the faint ink on the rolled-up papyrus scroll.
"It's probably a lost work," Richard Janko, the Gerald F. Else distinguished university professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan, said during a presentation at the joint annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, held in New Orleans last month. The research is not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Only small parts of the heavily damaged text can be read right now. "It contains the names of a number of Macedonian dynasts and generals of Alexander," Janko said, noting that it also includes "several mentions of Alexander himself." Read more.
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A marble relief of Isis-Demeter from the facade of the main temple of the sanctuary of Isis. 2nd century BC.
Dion Archaeological Museum.
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The elite bodyguard of Alexander the Great is said to have killed a lion with his bare hands and this is how he gained Alexander’s attention. This man was Lysimachus and he eventually had a small empire of his own.
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… long eloquent
silence.
Mateja Matevski, Footprints of the Wind: Selected Poems
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Macedonian girls, North Macedonia, by Toni Perec
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A Macedonian pezhetairoi for Hail Caesar/SPQR. A box of these (the SPQR release) was in the Warlord mystery box I ordered this year.
I got the Coat d'Arms Ancients paint set in today and felt like giving it a test run, along with some Vallejo dark vermillion and Army Painter zealot yellow to tint some metallics, since the bronze in the ancients set was very heavily separated.
(yes, my wrist is killing me. assembly's fair more painful than painting right now, though)
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