Between Alexander the Great and Titus: Educational Myths and Disappointments — Geopedagogy

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North Macedonia is a country suspended between two shadows: the long one of Alexander the Great and the more recent but equally cumbersome one of the post-Titus era. Two legacies that could not be more different, yet coexist in the country's collective psyche. On the one hand, the myth of the conquering hero, a symbol of greatness and expansion; on the other, the memory of a system that guaranteed stability, order, and belonging, but also frozen…