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eHellenicMinistry of Culture and Sports has the copyright of the photographs of antiquities and of the actual antiquities that comprise the visual content of the photographs. [...] ey all testify to the historic significance of Aigai, the first city of the Macedonians, the frontier Hellenic tribe that brought the Greek language, education and culture to the ends of the ancient world, and played a catalytic role in the evolution of global history. [...] rough the endless alternation of the fleeting with the eternal, he hopes to become aware of the unbroken continuity, and through awareness of the incessantly repeated death of the individual, he aspires to feel and touch the immortality of the species. [...] e ridge of the Pieria mountains to the south, the Aliakmon to the west and north and the Askordos River to the east demarcate the historical site of Aigai, the Macedonian Metropolis. [...] In the deep-shaded forest and flowering meadows of the Muses’ mountain, themelancholy song of the flute was heard, the whistling of the syrinx played by lonely herdsmen cut through the heavy silence, and the orgiastic rhythms of the bagpipe, drums and rattles of the Dionysian retinue (thiasos) alternated with the sober voice of the Apollonian lyre. e kings of Aigai also provided for feasts and fes.