"That
the Macedonians and their kings did in fact speak a dialect of Greek and bore
Greek names may be regarded nowadays as certain."
Malcom Errington, "A History of Macedonia",page 3
“Macedonian horsemen together with those of their Thessalian neighbours were later
regarded as the best in Greece”
Macedonia
and Epirus were the buffers of Greece in Europe...
The Greeks
Until Alexander [Ancient Peoples and Places series],1962 by R. M. Cook,page 23
I fear that I have not been wholly consistent in my
use of the term “Macedonian.” For the record, let me state that I believe
Macedonians, ancient and modern,are Greeks .
Ptolemy of
Egypt,Walter M. Ellis, Routledge, 1994
In less than twelve years Alexander conquered the
Persian empire,a region that included
the modern countries of
Turkey,Syria,Lebanon,Israel,Egypt,Iraq,Iran,Afghanistan,Pakistan,and parts of
former Soviet Turkestan and Uzbekistan.His empire also included a relatively
united Greece,the work of his father,Philip II.
Ptolemy was
the creator of the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms. He created a
state whose cultural importance was unparalleled until the coming of Rome. He
encouraged the erection of the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of
the ancient world, as well as creating a library which eventually contained the
greatest collection of books until relatively recent times. Ptolemy's
institution of higher learning, the Museum, gave birth to the greatest
advancements in science before the seventeenth century of our own era.
In this
work, the first biography of Ptolemy in any language, Professor Ellis charts
Ptolemy's extraordinary achievements in and beyond Egypt in the context of the
fragmentation of Alexander's enormous empire and the creation of the
Hellenistic state.
Wie es anfing - Thales, Heraklit, Platon, Aristoteles Hellenismus und Weltbürgertum - Epikur, die Stoa und Plotin Moral u...
