@ Macedonian Culture and History Plutarch was an ancient Greek historian and philosopher whose probably most famous work is the "Parallel lives". In "Parallel lives" Plutarch describes the lives of 48 famous men, Greeks and Romans. The lives are arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. Each pair consists of one Greek and one Roman of similar destiny, such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. Can our friends from North (of) Macedonia tell us, between Alexander

In 434 BC, Greek philosopher Anaxagoras was banished from Athens for daring to claim the Moon was just a rock. 🌙 🪨 At a time when both the Moon and Sun were worshipped as deities, Anaxagoras proposed they were physical objects the Sun a fiery stone and the Moon an earthlike body reflecting sunlight. This radical theory not only challenged religious beliefs but provided the first scientific explanation for lunar phases and eclipses, concepts still taught in classrooms today. Anaxagoras was char