Modern Historians about Macedonia - John Morris Roberts

 

“The Macedonians spoke Greek and attended Hellenic festivals; their kings claimed to be descented from Greek families- from Achilles, the great Achaean hero of the Iliad, no less.” 

 John.M. Roberts, “A Short History of the World”,Oxford University Press, New York, 1993 ,page 124

 

“Alexander was a passionate Hellene.

He revered the memory of Achilles his supposed ancestor,and carried with him on his campaigns a treasured copy Homer.He had been tutored by Aristotle.”

John.M.Roberts,“A Short History of the World”,Oxford University Press, New York, 1993 ,page 125

Modern Historians about Macedonia - Charles Gates

 

 

 

 Alexander, son of Philip the Macedonian

 

 

 

“Philip II came to power in Macedonia in 359 BC. Althought speaking a dialect of Greek, the Macedonians lay on the fringes of Greek culture and had contributed little to Greek political, socio-economic and artistic life.”

 

 Charles Gates,Ancient Cities:The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece, and Rome,page 269

“With Alexander’s conquests, West Asia and Egypt were brought into the fold of Greek culture. The newly formed Greek kingdoms of the Hellenistic period would be much influenced, however, by the Near Eastern and Egyptian cultures they were now controlling. ”

 

Charles Gates,Ancient Cities:The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece, and Rome,page 270
 

 

 

 

Bilkent University:Charles Gates received his Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania (1979) and taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before joining the faculty at Bilkent in 1990. 

His teaching and research interests include Greek archaeology; Cilicia, Cyprus, and the Levant in the first millennium BC; and Byzantine art and archaeology. 

He is the author of Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece, and Rome, 2nd edn (London & New York: Routledge, 2011). 

A member of the Kinet Höyük excavation project since 1993, he works primarily on the site's Iron Age and Persian and Hellenistic levels.

 

 

 

 

 

Modern Historians about Macedonia - Sir John Linton Myres

 

…the northern dialects of Greek, including that of the Macedonians, who were coming in the fifth centurry to have a common fontier with the Thracians in the Strymon basin…

John Lynton Myres, “Who were the Greeks?”,page 99

 

 

 

Who Were the Greeks by Myres John Linton, 

Wykeham Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford. 

[Sather Classical Lectures, volume VI.]

Berkeley: University of California Press. 1930