“Occupation -The policies and practices of Military Conquerors” by Eric Carlton

 

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The literary evidence for these early years is sparse, but what there is seems to accord with archaeological opinion that the Macedonian tribes ousted the indigenous peoples of the area and established themselves at Aegae near the Thermaic Gulf where they coalesced into an identifiable nation. Scholarship has long been divided on the question of whether these people were really Greeks-certainly the Greeks at the time were reluctant to give them status as true Hellenes.

 The Macedonian language has not survived in any extant text, but their personal and place names, and the names of their gods strongly suggest a Greek dialect. Scholars are now more or less agreed that they were one group of many Dorian tribes that had made their way into Greece from the Balkans in successive waves probably from as early as the eleventh century BC.

Occupation:The Policies and Practices of Military Conquerors,page 54- 55

Book by Eric Carlton,Routledge,1992

Ο Μέγας Αλέξανδρος στις ελληνικές δραχμές

 

16.04.1956 - Alexander the Great in Modern Greek Bank Note of one thousand Drachmas

1918 - Alexander the Great in Modern Greek Bank Note of two Drachmas  

1921  – Alexander the Great in Modern Greek Bank Note of fifty Drachmas

1923 – Alexander the Great in Modern Greek Bank Note of Five Drachmas

 18.06.1941 – Alexander the Great Wearing the Horn of Ammon in Modern Greek Bank Note of two Drachmas

1-10-1941 – Alexander the Great in Modern Greek Bank Note of one thousand Drachmas

Η ΕΝ ΙΣΣΩ ΜΑΧΗ

16 - 04 - 1956 

 

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