Η ομόφωνη απόφαση του ΚΑΣ να αποσπάσει τα απομεινάρια του βυζαντινού δρόμου της Θεσσαλονίκης είναι μια «σκοτεινή μέρα για τον πολιτισμό»… Ντροπή! - της Sh. Gerstel

Η ομόφωνη απόφαση του ΚΑΣ

να αποσπάσει τα απομεινάρια

του βυζαντινού δρόμου

της Θεσσαλονίκης

είναι μια «σκοτεινή μέρα

για τον πολιτισμό»…

Ντροπή!

By Sharon Gerstel,

professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology, UCLA

 

I lived in Thessaloniki for a good part of my life, crossing Egnatia every day to attend university classes. As a Byzantinist, the city was a dream – a place to understand the great cultural movements of an empire. Embraced by its Byzantine walls, the city is punctuated by churches that represent the entire history of an empire.

ΨΗΦΙΣΤΕ ΝΑ ΜΕΙΝΟΥΝ ΤΑ ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΘΕΣΗ ΤΟΥΣ, ΕΔΩ.

Thus, the discovery of the city’s main Byzantine thoroughfare was an important find that laid out the everyday lives of those who lived in the medieval city. It allowed us, for the first time, to walk in the footsteps of those who had come before. 

The road—and the shops that lined the road—provided a unique window into the past for those who study history, but also for those who love Thessaloniki. 

If Athens promotes Greece’s ancient past, Thessaloniki showcases more than a millennium when it was the most important city in Hellas. Today’s unanimous decision by the Central Archaeological Council (ΚΑΣ) to tear up the remains of the Byzantine road is an act of erasure, a “dark day for culture.”

ΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΤΕΡΑ για το ΜΕΤΡΟ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ, ΕΔΩ.

One wonders if the ancient agora in Athens were paved over, would anyone object? 

Or, are such reckless decisions only directed at “second cities” whose remains may not fit the overarching narrative of Greek history that is rooted in the classical past?

Ντροπή.

ΠΗΓΗ: Sharon Gerstel, 24.9.2020. ΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, 25.9.2020.

 ΛΕΞΕΙΣ: μετρο θεσσαλονικης, θεσσαλονικη

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