Modern historians about Macedonia – J. E. G. Whitehorne

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Perdiccas II was one of five sons of Alexander I, the king who had first proved the hellenic bona fides of the Argead House to the game marshals at Olympia. Despite a subsequent blot upon his record as a good Greek when he failed to join in immediate pursuit of the defeated Persians as they withdrew through his territories in 479/8 BC

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Out of the rich spoils of his victory over them he was able to dedicate solid gold statues of himself at the major Greek shrines of Delphi and Olympia.

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The inherent value of these splendid monuments (incidentally the earliest know portait statues of a Greek ruler) has ensured they have long since dissapeared, but their dedication was enough to secure Alexander’s hellenic status for all time.

 

“Cleopatras”, by  John Edwin George Whitehorne,page 15

Publisher:Routledge,1994  

Modern Historians about Macedonia – L.S. Stavrianos

 

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Recent philological and archaeological research indicates that the ancient Macedonians were in fact Greeks, whose civilization had not kept up with that of the tribes which had settled further to the south. Their language closely resembled the classical Greek from which it differed no more than one English dialect from another.

Various non-Greek peoples apparently had come under the rule of the Macedonian nobles and kings, but these latter definitely were Greeks in language and outlook, and invited Greek men of learning to their courts.

 

“The Balkans since 1453” by L.S. Stavrianos,page 18 

First edition:1958

Modern historians about Macedonia – Benjamin Ide Wheeler

 

by Benjamin I. Wheeler

President of the University of California

''That the Macedonians were Greek by race there can be no longer any doubt.

They were the northernmost fragments of the race left stranded behind the barriers of Olympus.''

 

 Alexander The Great The Merging Of East And West In Universal History,page 10

by Benjamin Ide Wheeler

Publication date:1900