Modern historians about Macedonia – Eugene Borza

 

Only recently have we begun to clarify these muddy waters by revealing the Demosthenic corpus for what it is: oratory designed to sway public opinion and thereby to formulate public policy. That elusive creature, Truth, is everywhere subordinate to Rhetoric; Demosthenes’ pronouncements are no more the true history of the period than are the public statements of politicians in any age. 

In the Shadow of Olympus:The Emergence of Macedon, Eugene N. Borza, Princeton University Press,1990,pages 5- 6

This larger Macedon included lands from the crest of the Pindus range to the plain of Philippi and the Nestos River. Its northern border lay along a line formed by Pelagonia, the middle Axios valley and the western Rhodopi massif. Its southern border was the Haliacmon basin, the Olympus range and the Aegean, with the Chalcidic peninsula as peripheral.

 

We thus have a conception of Macedonia both more and less extensive than Hammonds’s - less in that it reduces Emphasis on the north western lands that lie today within the Yugoslav state, but more in that it takes into greater account the territory east of the Axios. It is a definition based on the political development of the Macedonian State over a long period of time,incorporating the territory drained by 3 rivers,adding the Strymon to the Haliacmon and Axios.

In the Shadow of Olympus:The Emergence of Macedon, Eugene N. Borza, Princeton University Press,1990,pages 29 - 31 

“Borza has taken the trouble to know Macedonia: the land, its prehistory, its position in the Balkans, and its turbulent modern history. All contribute…to our understanding of the emergence of Macedon…. Borza has employed two of the historian’s most valuable tools, autopsy and common sense, to produce a well-balanced introduction to the state that altered the course of Greek and Near Eastern history.”

—Waldemar Heckel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Exhibition 'The Greeks: From Agamemnon to Alexander the Great' opens in Shanghai

 

 

 

 

The exhibition "The Greeks: From Agamemnon to Alexander the Great" opened its doors at the World Expo Museum in Shanghai, China on Wednesday, where it will remain until October 2025. The exhibition is yet another landmark in Greek-Chinese cultural exchanges, which reflect the keen interest of the Chinese public in Greek culture.

It was inaugurated on Tuesday morning, in the presence of the Greek Ambassador to China Dr. Eugenios Kalpyris, the Greek General Consul in Shanghai Georgios Parthenios, the museum's director Liu Wentao and the deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism, Jin Lei. The exhibition was organised by the Greek culture ministry and the World Expo Museum, with the support of the Greek embassy in China.

 

The exhibition features 270 artifacts of ancient Greek sculpture, artwork and jewellery, from 14 Greek museums and collections. Before being displayed in Shanghai, it had very successful runs at the Hunan Museum (December 2023-May 2024), the Nanjing Museum (June-November 2024) and the Capital Museum in Beijing (December 2024-May 2025).

 

Athens – Macedonian News Agency

Modern historians about Macedonia – John Maxwell O’Brien

 

To underline his role as avenger and hegemon of the Corinthian League, and perhaps in the hope that the Athenians would come to share in the fantasy of this as a war of revenge, Alexander selected 300 full sets of armor from dead Persians and ordered them to be sent back to Athens and dedicated to Athena on the Acropolis. The attached inscription read:

“Alexander son of Philip and the Greeks, except the Lacedaemonians,106 set up these spoils from the barbarians dwelling in Asia” (A.1.16.7).

Alexander the Great:The Invisible Enemy by John Maxwell O’Brien, page 62