Modern historians about Macedonia – John Pentland Mahaffy

 

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‘’… Philip of Macedon,the father of our hero; nor is  this the bad place in the history of Greece,for with Alexander, the stage of Greek influence spread across the world.’’

 John Pentland Mahaffy,“Alexander’s Empire”,page 2

 The classical scholar J. P. Mahaffy (1839-1919) is known equally for his work on Greek texts and Egyptian papyri (his edition of The Flinders Petrie Papyri is reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and spent the rest of his working life there, ultimately as provost from 1914 until his death.

 In this illustrated 1887 work, Mahaffy describes Alexander's extraordinary conquest of territories in Europe, Africa and Asia, the collapse of his empire after his death, and the later subjugation of the successor kingdoms to the power of Rome. With his American collaborator Arthur Gilman (1837-1909), Mahaffy discusses Alexander's place in history before giving a close account of his career and death. The successor dynasties, and dominant rulers such as Demetrius II and Pyrrhus, their feuds and their attempted resistance to the rise of Rome, are depicted in an engaging and dramatic narrative.

Modern Historians about Macedonia – John Clarke Stobart

 

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His Macedonians murmured at his Oriental dress and manners, but Alexander was always a Greek at heart, the lines of Homer always rang in his ears, and he fancied himself a reincarnation of Achilles pursuing his Phrygian Hectors over the dusty plains of Troy.

page 243

 

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Oriental life and language continued, but in the towns and for purposes of government both the language and the civilisation were Greek. Thus Alexander had done his work. He had actually added the whole of Asia Minor, Phœnicia, and Egypt to the Greek world. Curious traces of Hellenism are found even in distant India.

page 244

 

The Glory that was Greece: A Survey of Hellenic Culture & Civilisation by Stobart, J. C.  Lippincott ,1911

Modern Historians about Macedonia – A. R. Burn

 

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Macedonian Kings were proud of their Greek blood and it was only jaundiced  opponents  like Demosthenes the Athenian who ventured  to call them  ‘’barbarians’’.

Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic world. by A. R. Burn,page 4

I Was Sent to Athens by Henry Morgenthau (1929)

 

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Soon after Athens had reached the height of its glory under Pericles in the Fifth Century, B. C., and had started on its decline, the rise of Macedon under Philip carried Greek influence into new regions. The glory of Athens had been based upon sea power, but the conquests of Macedon were the work of land armies— Philip invented the invincible phalanx.

 

 Upon Philip's death his son, Alexander the Great, set forth to conquer the whole of the then known world, and as that world in his day lay to the east, his marches were in that direction. In a few years he had overrun the fertile plains and opulent cities of Asia Minor, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Persia, and had carried his conquests to the gates of Delhi.

 

 In all the cities in the intervening countries he left large garrisons of Greek soldiers. In many of these countries he founded flourishing new cities. In every place his soldiers were followed by large colonies of Greek civilians. The result was that the whole of western Asia, and of what we call the Near East, including Asia Minor Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Babylonia, Mesopotamia, Persia, and northwestern India, was saturated with the Greek influence and with Greek colonies.  

 I Was Sent to Athens by Henry Morgenthau,1929, 1st edition,Doubleday,USA

Modern Historians about Macedonia – Archer Jones

 

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King Philip of the northern Greek kingdom of Macedon perfected this system,and his son,Alexander the Great, used it to conquer Greece and Persian Empire. 

Archer Jones, The Art of War in the Western World,page 21 

ABOUT THE BOOK

The magnum opus of one of America's most respected military historians, The Art of War in the Western World has earned its place as the standard work on how the three major operational components of war--tactics, logistics, and strategy--have evolved and changed over time. This monumental work encompasses 2,500 years of military history, from infantry combat in ancient Greece through the dissolution of the Roman Empire to the Thirty Years' War and from the Napoleonic campaigns through World War II, which Jones sees as the culmination of modern warfare, to the Israeli-Egyptian War of 1973.

University of Illinois Press 

Modern Historians about Macedonia – Bernard Randall

 

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‘’yet in the thirteen years of his reign as king Alexander III of Macedon, he went from ruler of the leading state in Greece to conqueror of the biggest empire the world had ever seen.’’

page 7 

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he believed himself to be the son of Zeus, the king of the Greek gods

page 7

 

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He made Egypt and the middle east parts of the greek world, and he initiated the spread of Greek ideas and philosophy far beyong Greece

page 8

 

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Where as the Athenians governed themselves as a democracy, Macedon was still ruled by a type of monarchy that had dissapeared from other greek city-states centuries before

page 10

Alexander the Great: Macedonian King and Conqueror

Ancient Leaders Series

Leaders of ancient Greece

Bernard Randall

Professor Paul Cartledge on the ancient Macedonian language

 

Professor Paul Cartledge of the  University of Cambridge asserts that ancient Macedonian was a Greek dialect not easily understood by other Greeks

 

 

Alexander the Great

At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire. By the time of his death, aged only thirty-three, in 323 BCE he was ruler of the known world and was being worshipped as a god by the Greeks, both at Babylon, where he died, and further west, among the Greek cities of the Asiatic seaboard. The fruit of a lifetime's scholarship and meticulous research, this is an outstanding biography of one of the most remarkable rulers in history.

 (From the publisher)  

Modern Historians about Macedonia – Katja Mueller

 

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If the Ptolemies did not found cities in Egypt the way the Seleukids did in Asia and Asia Minor, they did settle tens of thousands of Greco-Macedonians and other settlers.

page 3

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Mainly it was Greek Macedonians who were settled.

page 3

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An important feature of Ptolemaic history and historiography has been the dichotomy  between Greek and Egyptian cultures.

Modern scholarship has intimately linked Hellenistic colonization with the Greek side, with Greek culture. We might then expect new settlements to reflect this greekness. The city of Alexandria provides a good example. It was a settlement with a Greek-Macedonian origin.

Its founder, Alexander the Great, was a Greek-speaking Macedonian, its second founder Ptolemy I, a Greek Macedonian general; its architects Deinokrates and Sostratos of Knidos were both Greeks.

The city’s grid plan was Greek Hippodamian. Ptolemaic colonization which followed might thus be viewed as a Greek phenomenon owning its origin and structure to Greek town planning.

page 106

 

Settlementsof the Ptolemies:City Foundations and New Settlement in the Hellenistic World, Katja Mueller (2006)

Modern Historians about Macedonia – Peter Tsouras

 

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Alexander III was born on 20 July 356 B.C as heir of the Argead dynasty of the kingdom of Macedonia in northeastern Greece. His father, Philip II, was probably the most remarkable Greek military and political figure between Pericles and Alexander himself.

Alexander: Invincible King of Macedonia by Peter G. Tsouras, page 3

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Philip transformed Macedonia from a minor and constantly beleaguered state into the mistress of Hellas and created the magnificent weapon of war – the Macedonian army.

Alexander:Invincible King of Macedonia by Peter G. Tsouras, page 3

 

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The macedonians were Greek in language and blood but did not share the city-state culture of the southern greeks who were quick to lump their cruder kinsmen with barbarians.

“Alexander:Invincible King of Macedonia” by Peter G Tsouras, page 3

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Alexander’s royal ancestors hosted the artistic genious of Greece.

Alexander:Invincible King of Macedonia By Peter G. Tsouras, page 4

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Younger than he,her beauty was already apparent and intoxicating. She was not the typical Greek woman whose glory was never to be spoken of. Red-haired and fiery by nature, she was a woman for whom power was an all-consuming pursuit

Alexander:Invincible King of Macedonia by Peter G. Tsouras,page 19

 

Alexander:Invincible King of Macedonia (Military Profiles) 

Publisher‏:University of Nebraska Press (1 May 2004)