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One of the greatest cultural crimes in Greek history happened in Sparta. In the 1730s, the French scholar Michel Fourmont was sent by the French crown to Greece. His mission was to copy ancient inscriptions and document classical antiquities. What he left behind in Sparta was one of the most shameful acts in the history of archaeology and a crime against the Greek culture and history.
Fourmont fabricated more than 1,200 inscriptions, many of them obvious forgeries that mixed impossible names, anachronistic formulas, and linguistic errors. To create the appearance of authenticity, he ordered the destruction of ancient Spartan structures and artifacts.
Marble blocks covered with authentic inscriptions were deliberately shattered. Priceless originals were smashed so that his fakes could take their place in scholarly collections.
Sparta, already reduced to ruins after centuries of neglect, still retained rare physical traces of its legendary past. Entire categories of authentic Spartan texts, possibly unique in the Greek world, vanished forever.
For decades, his fabricated inscriptions were cited as serious evidence. Scholars built theories on lies. It took until the 20th century, particularly through the rigorous work of epigraphists like Louis Robert, for the full scale of the fraud to be exposed. By then the damage was irreversible.
Today, Michel Fourmont is remembered as a man who came to study Sparta, my homeland, and instead silenced it. His actions represent one of the greatest cultural crimes in Greek history. The deliberate erasure of a civilization’s material memory, dressed up as scholarship.
In a letter to Count Maurepas, Fourmont boasts that he destroyed the inscriptions so that they would not be copied by a future traveler:
"For over 30 days now - 30, 40, even 60 workers - have been dismantling, destroying, erasing the city of Sparta. I have only 4 single towers left to demolish… For the moment, I am occupied with the destruction of Sparta’s last antiquities. You understand what joy I feel. But Mantinea, Stymphalia, Tegea, and especially Nemea and Olympia deserve to be thoroughly uprooted. I’ve made many expeditions in search of the ancient cities of this land, and I’ve destroyed several. Among them Troezen, Hermione, Tiryns, half the acropolis of Argos, Phliasia, Pheneos… I have entered Mani. For six weeks now, I’ve been occupied with the total destruction of Sparta. By tearing down its walls, its temples, leaving not a stone upon a stone, I will make even its location unknown in the future, so that I can be the one to make it known again. That way, I will glorify my journey. Is that not something? Sparta is the fifth city I have destroyed. I am now occupied with the destruction of the deepest foundations of the temple of Amyklaean Apollo. I would have destroyed other ancient sites just as easily, if only I had been allowed to. I completely demolished the tower. Of the travelers who came before me, I don't recall a single one daring to demolish towers and other large buildings!"
According to the information he himself provides, in Sparta alone he paid for 1.200 daily wages to demolish the monuments and buildings that still survived.
Fourmont was then planning to move on to Olympia, a visit he had actually scheduled. But fortunately, he was recalled to France and left Greece.
The barbarity and the damage caused by the Frenchman were irreparable.
As a Greek from Laconia, I wish that this inhumane barbarian, may never rest in peace.
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Δλδ ... θες να κράξεις και βαριέσαι, τι να κράξεις; αφού τα έχεις ξανακράξει πεντε δέκα χρόνια πριν. ουτε καν αυτό.
#ΕΛΑΣ #τσιπρας #θησειο
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Συγνώμη Αλέξη ΕΛΑΣ το ονόμασες το κόμμα ;😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.Άρη Βελουχιώτη δεν θα ήταν καλύτερα;
Αλέξης Τσίπρας - Alexis Tsipras@atsipras
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Ό,τι μας βρήκε κι ό,τι μας λύπησε
σαν το μαχαίρι κρυφά μας χτύπησε
σβήσε το δάκρυ με το μαντίλι σου
να πιω τον ήλιο μέσα απ’ τα χείλη σου
Μην τον ρωτάς τον ουρανό
το σύννεφο και το φεγγάρι
το βλέμμα σου το σκοτεινό
κάτι απ’ τη νύχτα έχει πάρει
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Λόγο στο λόγο και ξεχαστήκαμε
μας πήρε ο πόνος και νυχτωθήκαμε
σβήσε το δάκρυ με το μαντίλι σου
να πιω τον ήλιο μέσα απ’ τα χείλη σου
Μην τον ρωτάς τον ουρανό
το σύννεφο και το φεγγάρι
το βλέμμα σου το σκοτεινό
κάτι απ’ τη νύχτα έχει πάρει
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@as_poume το κραξιμο οπως λες θα χρησιμοποιηθεί ως αποδεικτικο υλικο.
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τον δικηγόρο μου τον ξέρετε. αν θέλετε κάτι από εμένα επικοινωνήσετε μαζί του #σπεις
δεν μπαίνω στα βοθροσπεις σας και δεν ενδιαφέρομαι
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Σκέφτομαι να ανοίξω σπεις να λυθεί η παρεξήγηση ανάμεσα σε @Aph_Kay και @Trambakoulas2 #σπεις
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δεν εχω δωσει σε κανεναν την εγκριση μου να μιλαει για μενα
αν νομίζετε ότι θα με εκβιάσετε με τους τραμπουκισμους
και τις μηχανορραφίες... ποντάρετε σε λάθος άλογο
#σπεις
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