The highly anticipated international exhibition Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes has officially launched in New Zealand reported the New Zealand Herald.

According to the media outlet, the exhibition, which had been postponed from 2020  opened on Saturday 11 June exclusively at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Earlier this year in March the touring exhibition had opened in Australia,

Ancient Greeks is the result of a groundbreaking collaboration between the Western Australian Museum, the National Museum of Australia, and the Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, which combined forces to bring the exhibition to Australasia for the first time. Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes was on display at the Western Australian Museum from 20 June to 7 November 2021, and will be on show at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand until 6 November 022.

Acting keeper of Greece and Rome at the British Museum Dr Peter Higgs said they’ve always wanted to send an exhibition to New Zealand.

“This is the first time we’ve been able to send a whole exhibition here so we’re really delighted it got here,” he said.

“There’s been individual loan items to New Zealand before but not an exhibition of 170 objects filling several rooms in this wonderful museum.”

The exhibition explores the theme of competition through sports, politics, drama, music and warfare through dozens of artefacts from Ancient Greece.

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The Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes exhibition from the British Museum’s world-renowned collection from the Ancient Greek world, is the largest selection of ancient artefacts ever loaned by the British Museum to New Zealand.

It will showcase a wide range of treasures and stories, including the masterpiece of the exhibition, a two metre long fragment of marble frieze from one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Ancient Greek civilisation has had a profound influence on the development of language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts around the world. Artistic, physical and intellectual competition pervaded all of society and this exhibition, highlights that competition can unify, resulting in achievement and innovation.

This impressive and impactful exhibition is an introduction to an ancient culture that has never before been showcased in Auckland in this way or to this scale.

Don’t miss this major international exhibition exclusively at Auckland Museum until Sunday 6 November.

The Ancient Greeks exhibition is divided into six sections: Nike, Goddess of Victory; Sporting Competitions; The Performing Arts; War; Heroes and Myths; Society: Competition in Life and Death.

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