Modern historians about Macedonia –N. G. L. Hammond

 

 

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 Hesiod would not have recorded this relationship, unless he had believed, probably in the seventh century, that the Macedones were a  greek speaking.The next evidence comes from Persia. At the turn of the sixth century the Persians described the tribute - paying peoples of their province in Europe, and one of them was the ‘yauna takabara’, which meant “Greeks wearing the hat”.

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.”

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 As we have mentioned in Chapter I, Perdiccas and his brothers came from Argos and Peloponnese. They were members of the Royal house of Argos, the “Teminidae”, descendants of Temenus, whose ancestor was Heracles, son of Zeus; it was this Temenus who led the Dorian tribes into the Argolid and founded Dorian Argos late in the 12th century. Thus Perdiccas came to Macedonia with the aura of divine favor, and he could claim that the Temenidae and the Argeadae were both descended from Zeus and so were diogeneis. To Greeks of the classical period the Temenid name was well known. 

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).

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The matter is of only academic interest to a few scholars today. No one in Antiquity doubted the truth of the clam.

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The Macedonian State:The Origins, Institutions and History,N. G. L. Hammond ,1989

Modern Linguists about Macedonia – Sylvain Auroux

 

 

    “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

 

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Modern historians about Macedonia – William John Woodhouse

 

This was Macedonia in the strict sense, the land where settled immigrants of Greek stock later to be called Macedonians.

William John Woodhouse,The tutorial history of Greece,from the earliest times to the death of Demosthenes,page 402

 

Modern historians about Macedonia – Fergus Millar

 

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

Ὕμνος εἰς τήν Ἀρετήν

 

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

Modern Historians about Macedonia – James S. Romm

 

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

Modern Historians about Macedonia – Robin Osborne

 

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

Modern Historians about Macedonia – Rosalie and Anthony E. David

 

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

 

Modern Historians about Macedonia – Kathryn A. Bard

 

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

Modern Historians about Macedonia – J.D.Fage

 

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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

 

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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 

Modern historians about Macedonia – Max Cary

 

“The future relations between the two peoples had been irrevocably fixed by Alexander’s Anabasis, which destined them to work together in close co-operation as joint rulers of the East, and eventually to be blended into one Nation.“

Max  Cary, A History of the Greek World from 323-146 B.C. page 10

 

 

In 197 he re-entered Thessaly and forced a battle on the field of Cynoscephalae. In this encounter the Macedonian heavy infantry proved that in a solid front-to-front charge not even the Roman legions could hold, but that, once thrown out of order or taken in flank, it became helpless. While one Macedonian Phalanx charged right home, another broke itself up by its own impetus and became an easy prey to the enemy; and the victorious division, without cavalry support on the flanks, was enfiladed and cut to pieces by the succcessful Roman wing wheeling upon it. This was the first decisive victory of  Romans over Greeks  in a set battle on a large scale; but it sufficed definitely to establish Roman ascendancy in Greece.

Max  Cary, “A History of the Greek World from 323-146 B.C.”, page 191 

A History of the Greek World from 325 to 146 B.C.

by  Cary Max ,publication date:1932

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A History of the Greek World from 323 to 146 B.C. (1951) looks at the period of Greek history from the Macedonian to the Roman conquests. It contains a narrative of the political history of the Hellenistic states; a description of their statecraft, war-craft and economic practice; and a summary of later Greek achievement in the fields of art, literature, science, philosophy and religion. 

Routledge 

Modern historians about Macedonia – J.R. Hamilton

 

“That the Macedonians were of Greek stock seems certain.”

 

“…but Macedonian proper names, such as Ptolemaios or Philippos, are good Greek names, and the names of the Macedonian months, although differed from those of Athens or Sparta, were also Greek.”

 

Alexander the Great,J.R. Hamilton(Hutchinson,London, 1973),page 23

Modern historians about Macedonia – Jerome Jordan Pollitt

 

“The Macedonians were ethnically related to the Greeks and spoke a dialect of Greek, but their loose feudal kingdom on the northern border of the Greek world had always been regarded as culturally backward.”

 

 

Art and Experience in Classical Greece,Jerome Jordan Pollitt,page 138

Modern historians about Macedonia – Nigel Guy Wilson

 

“The latest archaeological findings have confirmed that Macedonia took it’s name from a tribe of tall, Greek-speaking people, the Makednoi ( = lenght )”

 

“Philip II of Macedon was anxious to pacify and unify Greeks at any cost… His dream was fulfilled by his son Alexander III the Great,who in no more than 12 years at the head of a Greek army occupied a major part of then known world from the Aegean Sea to the frontiers of India “

 

Nigel Guy Wilson, Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece,page 439

Modern historians about Macedonia – J.B Bury & Russell Meiggs

 

“The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock,as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.”

“Alexander was chosen supreme general of the Greeks for the invasion of Asia,and it was as head of Hellas,descendant and successor of Achilles...”

J.B.Bury and R. Meiggs:A History of Greece. To the Death of Alexander the Great