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Do You Think The Building Of This Alexander The Great Monument Is..

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There are plans to build a 40 foot likeness of Alexander the Great onto a craggy Greek cliff. The scheme is the brainchild of the Chicago-based Alexander the Great Foundation. It says it has pledges for the full $45 million cost. The local authorities want to go ahead with the project, anticipating economic benefits from tourism, but the national Culture Ministry adamantly opposes it. In April it decreed the project unsuitable for Greece, which has a tradition of building monuments in proportion to human scale and the environment. The ministry's general secretary, Lina Medoni, warned last week that if the sponsors went ahead with the project at the 2,000-foot Mount Kerdyllion, in the northern Greek region of Macedonia near the birthplace of Alexander, it could be "forcefully blocked."

So what do you think?
 

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but the national Culture Ministry adamantly opposes it. In April it decreed the project unsuitable for Greece, which has a tradition of building monuments in proportion to human scale and the environment.
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I have to agree with this. It wouldnt really fit in the Greek environment...Mount Rushmores aren't for everyone ;)
 
good idea, if they only use tools that were avaible when alexander lived. otherwise is it fake. ;)
 
Aaaaah I see that this foundation is "Chicago-based". I know Americans like everything big but in Europe, especially the Classical Regions, they like things small and reserved adn ry not to change the way there ancient sites look.

Alexander is a great Legend but so are hundreds of other people and they don't get their faces carved into mountains?
 
Originally posted by Hitro
Because someone seems to have the money for it...
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And the reason for making an ugly mess out of a Greek hillside is?

I mean, do these people think that Alexander The Great isn't already well known or something, for god's sake, and that he hasn't already been imortalised for all time before a bunch of rich tits came along and started making proposals to erect a great piece of monkey ****?
 
On the one hand, it seems like an incredible waste of money.

On the other hand, I don't live in Greece, I probably will never go there, and it isn't my money, so why do I care what he does with it?

'eh.
 
Originally posted by Hamlet
And the reason for making an ugly mess out of a Greek hillside is?
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The reasons for alot of things people do with their money are not explainable with a sane mind.
I mean, do these people think that Alexander The Great isn't already well known or something, for god's sake, and that he hasn't already been imortalised for all time before a bunch of rich tits came along and started making proposals to erect a great piece of monkey ****?
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Obviously not.
 
Guh! It's awful! It's an eye sore and does not fit in with the Greek landscape, really why do Americans feel the need to make gigantic prottruding faces out of the side of mountains?
 
Originally posted by Flatlander Fox
Kinda looks like Crazy Horse!
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Yeah. :crazyeye:


It scares me what some people do with large quantities of money. Think of all the starving ponies you could hay and grain. :( :eek:
 
It's an abomination and not a very Greek thing to do. I hope Greece puts a stop to this. If this group admires and wants to honor Alexander, they should find a more tasteful way to do it.

And by the way, I'm an American, by birth and upbringing, and I oppose the putting of gigantic faces onto the sides of mountains. You don't honor a great man by creating an enormous eyesore that offends people, and you don't have to be European or Canadian to understand that, thank you very much.
 
it's kinda stupid to raise a huge, ugly monument to someone who has been dead for so long, but that doesn't prevent cathedral construction, so why should it prevent this?
 
Originally posted by Becka
It scares me what some people do with large quantities of money. Think of all the starving ponies you could hay and grain. :( :eek:
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The starving ponies! :eek:
For $45 million you could minimise the effects of the next African drought and save millions of lives. How many starving ponies are there in the world? It scares me what you'd do with a large quantity of money.

Oh, Crazy Horse Mountain? It looks like something a James Bond villain would plan. Bad idea for all the reasons listed above. If they really need a tourism boost then surely they could open a decent museum that would commemorate his achievements far better than an enormous blot on the landscape and it would cost far less cash. All those who have pledged money to this ridiculous venture should have their accounts frozen as they are clearly not sensible enough to have that much cash at their disposal.
 
It is an unnecessary eye sore, for a silly purpose.
Now, if it were something proper, such as Mount Darkshade, or Mount Elijah, then it would be a different matter... :D :king:
 
Originally posted by Simon Darkshade
Now, if it were something proper, such as Mount Darkshade...
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your balaclava would make it look like the phantom rock from that comic.
 
:lol: Very amusing.

Maybe they could just carve the mountain into a giant "?" or "Wouldn't you like to know?" :lol: :D
 
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