“Greece and Macedon were akin in blood and culture.”
N.G.L. Hammond , “A History of Greece to 332 B.C.”, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1959),page 651
“Greece and Macedon were akin in blood and culture.”
N.G.L. Hammond , “A History of Greece to 332 B.C.”, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1959),page 651
Only
recently have we begun to clarify these muddy waters by revealing the
Demosthenic corpus for what it is: oratory designed to sway public opinion and
thereby to formulate public policy. That elusive creature, Truth, is everywhere
subordinate to Rhetoric; Demosthenes’ pronouncements are no more the true
history of the period than are the public statements of politicians in any age.
In the Shadow of Olympus:The Emergence of Macedon, Eugene N. Borza, Princeton University Press,1990,pages 5- 6
This larger
Macedon included lands from the crest of the Pindus range to the plain of
Philippi and the Nestos River. Its northern border lay along a line formed by
Pelagonia, the middle Axios valley and the western Rhodopi massif. Its southern
border was the Haliacmon basin, the Olympus range and the Aegean, with the
Chalcidic peninsula as peripheral.
We thus
have a conception of Macedonia both more and less extensive than Hammonds’s
- less in that it reduces Emphasis on the north western lands that lie today within
the Yugoslav state, but more in that it takes into greater account the
territory east of the Axios. It is a definition based on the political development
of the Macedonian State over a long period of time,incorporating the territory drained by 3 rivers,adding the Strymon to the Haliacmon and Axios.
In the
Shadow of Olympus:The Emergence of Macedon, Eugene N. Borza, Princeton
University Press,1990,pages 29 - 31
“Borza has taken the trouble to know Macedonia: the land, its prehistory, its position in the Balkans, and its turbulent modern history. All contribute…to our understanding of the emergence of Macedon…. Borza has employed two of the historian’s most valuable tools, autopsy and common sense, to produce a well-balanced introduction to the state that altered the course of Greek and Near Eastern history.”
—Waldemar
Heckel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
To underline
his role as avenger and hegemon of the Corinthian League, and perhaps in the
hope that the Athenians would come to share in the fantasy of this as a war of
revenge, Alexander selected 300 full sets of armor from dead Persians and
ordered them to be sent back to Athens and dedicated to Athena on the
Acropolis. The attached inscription read:
“Alexander son of Philip and the Greeks, except the Lacedaemonians,106 set up these spoils from the barbarians dwelling in Asia” (A.1.16.7).
Alexander the Great:The Invisible Enemy by John Maxwell O’Brien, page 62
Quote:
There were
Greeks in Greek city-states here and there in the province, but they were of
various origins and not distinguished by a common hat. However, the Macedonians
wore a distinctive hat, the kausia. We conclude that the Persians believed the
Macedonians to be speakers of greek. Finally, in the latter part of the fifth century a Greek historian, Hellanicus,
visited Macedonia and modified Hesiodus genealogy by making Macedon not a
cousin, but a son of Aeolus, thus bringing Macedon and his descendants firmly into the Aeolic branch of the greek
speaking family.Hesiod, Persia, and Hellanicus had no motive for making a false
statement about the language of the Macedonians, who were then an obscure and
not a powerful people. Their independent testimonies should be accepted as conclusive.”
pages 12
-13
Quote:
Thus the oracle which was concerned post eventum with he following of the new capital, Aegeae, by Perdiccas began with the line “The noble Temenidae have royal rule over a wealth producing land. Herodotus made a special point of emphasizing that the royal house of Macedonia was Greek by descent, and Thucydides, who questioned much of what Herodotus said, concurred with him in calling the Macedonian kings “Temenidae from Argos”. Almost a century later Isocrates wrote to Philip II, saying “Argos is your fatherland”, and he asked Philip to emulate his father [Amyntas], the founder of the monarchy [Perdiccas], and the originator of the family (Heracles).
page 18
Quote:
The matter
is of only academic interest to a few scholars today. No one in Antiquity
doubted the truth of the clam.
The Macedonian State:The Origins, Institutions and History,N. G. L. Hammond ,1989
“Before the
times of the national unity installed by the Macedonians around the middle of
the 4th century BC, Greece was composed of many regions or city states[…]
That they [Dorians] were related to the North-West Dialects (of Phocis, Locris, Aetolia, Acarnania and Epirus) was not perceived clearly by the ancients. “
page 439
History of the Language Sciences / Geschichte der
Sprachwissenschaften / Histoire des sciences du langage
An International Handbook on the Evolution of the
Study of Language from the Beginnings to the Present / Ein internationales
Handbuch zur Entwicklung der Sprachforschung von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart
Edited by: Sylvain Auroux,E.F.K.Koerner,Hans-Josef Niederehe and Kees Versteegh
This was
Macedonia in the strict sense, the land where settled immigrants of Greek stock
later to be called Macedonians.
The
importance attached to Hadrian’s institution is best illustrated by an early
third-century inscription from Thessalonica honouring a local magnate,
T.Aelius Geminius Macedo [i.e., the Macedonian], who had not only held
magistracies and provided timber for a basilica in his own city, and been
Imperial curator of Apollonia,
but had been archon of the Panhellenic
congress in Athens, priest of the deified Hadrian and president of the
eighteenth Panhellenic Games (199/200); the inscription mentions proudly that
he was the first archon of the Panhellenic Congress from the city of Thessalonica.
Fergus Millar,The Roman Empire and Its Neighbours (1967), pages 205 - 206
Ὁ δέ ὕμνος ἔχει τοῦτον τόν τρόπον·
Ἀρετά, πολύμοχθε γένει βροτείῳ,
θήραμα κάλλιστον βίῳ,
σᾶς πέρι, παρθένε, μορφᾶς
καί θανεῖν ζαλωτός ἐν Ἑλλάδι πότμος
καί πόνους τλῆναι μαλερούς ἀκάμαντας·
τοῖον ἐπί φρένα βάλλεις
καρπόν τ᾿ ἀθάνατον χρυσοῦ τε κρείσσω
καί γονέων μαλακαυγήτοιό θ᾿ ὕπνου·
σεῦ δ᾿ ἕνεχ᾿ οὑκ Διός Ἡρακλέης Λήδας τε κοῦροι
πόλλ᾿ ἀνέτλασαν ἔργοις σάν ἀγρεύοντες δύναμιν.
σοῖς δέ πόθοις Ἀχιλεύς Αἴας τ᾿ Ἀίδαο δόμους ἦλθον·
σᾶς δ᾿ ἕνεκεν φιλίου μορφᾶς καί Ἀταρνέος ἔντροφος
ἀελίου χήρωσεν αὐγᾶς·
τοιγάρ ἀοίδιμος ἔργοις, ἀθάνατόν τέ μιν αὐξήσουσι Μοῦσαι
Μναμοσύνας θύγατρες, Διὀς ξενίου σέβας αὔξουσαι
φιλίας τε γέρας βεβαίου.
Διογένης Λαέρτιος,Βίοι καί γνῶμαι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίαι εὐδοκιμησάντων,Βιβλίον Εʹ
Eventually
the Greek way of war would prove so superior to that of the barbarian world as
to enable a largely Hellenic army,led by Alexander the Great,to conquer not
only Egypt but most of Asia as well.
On the War
for Greek Freedom:Selections from the ‘Histories’,edited by James S. Romm,translated by Samuel Shirley,page
xiii
In the
large scheme of things,Xerxes’ analysis was correct, as would be demonstrated
by Alexander the Great and his Greco-Macedonian invasion of Asia,150 years
down the road.
On the War for Greek Freedom:Selections from the ‘Histories’,edited by James S. Romm,translated by Samuel Shirley,page 125
After that
victory Philip imposed his own conditions on the whole Greek mainland, making a
treaty with all significant cities except Sparta, the so-called ‘League of
Corinth’. This treaty obliged the Greek cities to provide soldiers for Philip’s
campaigns, but it did not, contrary to what had been feared at Athens,
interfere with the constitutions of the individual cities.
Greek
History Classical Foundations Series,Robin Osborne,Routledge,2004,page 127
Although
Macedonians were accepted as Greek, after some discussion, for the purposes of
competing at the Olympic games, and although the language of the Macedonians
appears most probably to have been a dialect of Greek related to the dialects
of north-west Greek, some Macedonian customs were distinct.
Greek History Classical Foundations Series,Robin Osborne,Routledge,2004,page 127
The history
of ancient Egyptian civilisation covers a period from c.3100 BC to the conquest
of the country by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. Before the Dynastic Period
(beginning c.3100 BC), the communities laid the foundations for the later great
advances in technological, political, religious and artistic developments; this
is generally referred to as the Predynastic Period (c.5000-3100 BC).
After *Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC, the country was ruled by a line of Macedonian Greeks who descended from *Alexander’s general, Ptolemy (who became *Ptolemy I) .The last of this dynasty, *Cleopatra VII, failed to prevent
the absorption of Egypt into the Roman Empire in 30 BC, and subsequently Egypt
was ruled by Rome as a province.
Rosalie and Anthony E. David, ‘A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt’,Routledge,1991
The Macedonians were originally one of several Greek tribes living on
the northern frontier of the Hellenic world.”
“The
relatively remote geographical situation of the Macedonians contributed to
their retention of a social organization different from the rest of Greeks”
Encyclopedia
of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt By Kathryn A. Bard, pages 553-554
✍️ Quote:
Persian
rule in Egypt was not to survive long, but its overthrow was not the work of
Egyptians. In 336 BC a Greek army,led by Alexander III (Alexander the Great)
king of Macedonia invaded the Persian empire.
📖 “The Cambridge History of Africa” edited by
J. D. Fage, page 105
✍️Quote:
It would be
easy to see in this, the formal establishment of Greek rule in Egypt, the
logical culmination of three centuries of Greek influence and patronage. But,
except in so far as the earlier involvement of Greeks in Egyptian affairs
prepared the Egyptians psychologically to accept Greek rule...
📖 “The Cambridge History of Africa” edited by J. D. Fage, page 106
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