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• Modern Historians about Ancient Macedonia – Di Claude Orrieux

  In Ancient Macedonia, modern historians / 22 January 2012 / 0 comments

  

  The Macedonians spoke a little-known dialect, some peculiarities of which were apparently close to the Thessalian and Boeotian dialects, When we referred to the peoples of Epirus and Macedonia as Barbarians, Thucydides quite wrongly restricted Hellenism to the world of the [Read More]

• Ancient Macedonian testimonies about their own Ethnicity

  In Ancient Macedonia / 11 January 2012 / 0 comments

  

                          In reality we have only scarce evidence on what ancient Macedonians believed for themselves. However i will try to collect the available literary and archaeological evidence that would [Read More]

• Modern Historians about the Greekness of Ancient Macedonians

  In Ancient Macedonia, modern historians / 11 January 2012 / 0 comments

  

  Modern historians about Macedonia – N.G.L Hammond  Modern historians about Macedonia – R. Malcolm Errington Modern historians about Macedonia – Robin Lane Fox Modern historians about Macedonia – Richard Stoneman Modern historians about Macedonia – Ulrich Wilcken Modern historians about Macedonia – Eugene Borza [Read More]

• Kings of Ancient Macedonia

  In Ancient Macedonia / 11 January 2012 / 0 comments

  

  ARGEAD DYNASTY Karanos (c. Late 9th/Early 8th Cent.) Koinos (c. Mid-8th Cent.) Tyrimmas (c. Late 8th/Early 7th Cent.) Perdikkas I (c. 670-652) Argaeus I (652-621) Philip I (621-588) Aeropos I (588-68) Alketas (568-40) Amyntas I (540-498) Alexander I (c. 498-454) [Read More]

• The Hellenistic Period and the Spread of the Greek Language

  In Ancient Macedonia, Documentaries, modern historians / 8 January 2012 / 0 comments

  

  Hellenistic Period – Dr. David Neiman, the renowned Jewish scholar in the fields of Biblical Studies and Jewish history follows the conquests of Alexander the great and the subsequent spread of the Greek language through the Greek Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires. [Read More]

• Macedonian Archaeology: “First of the Hellenes in the Province” – An Inscription from Mygdonia

  In Ancient Macedonia, archaeology / 7 January 2012 / 0 comments

  

  Macedonian Archaeology – Pantelis Nigdelis and Asterios Lioutas presented a couple of years ago, a very interesting research entitled “First of the Hellenes in the Province- a new inscription from Mygdonia” focused on an inscription coming from the region of [Read More]

• Dion – The Religious Centre of ancient Macedonians in Macedonia (Northern Greece)

  In Ancient Macedonia, archaeology / 6 January 2012 / 0 comments

  

  Sanctuary of Demeter in Dion (Photo from the Greek Mag. “Archaeologia) By Dimitrios Pantermalis Dion (fr Gr Ζεύς, gen, Διός)means a holy, sanctified site Dion, in Macedo­nia, occupies a very narrow stnp of land between Mount Olympus foot and the [Read More]

• Ancient Macedonia in History Channel – Age of Alexander

  In Ancient Macedonia, Documentaries / 6 January 2012 / 1 comment

  

  Alexander and Diogenes (Photo @ Michael Papandronis – http://alexandrosthegreek.blogspot.com/) Engineering an Empire (Greece Age of Alexander) – A History Channel production Ancient Macedonia – The Macedonian royal house was called “Argeads” or “Temenidae”. According to the tradition, the founder of the [Read More]

• Εμμανουήλ Παππάς – Η Ελληνική Επανάσταση στην Μακεδονία

  In Ελληνικά / 5 January 2012 / 0 comments

  

    ΦIΛIKOΣ και αγωνιστής του 1821, πρωτεργάτης της εξέγερσης στη Xαλκιδική, ο Eμμανουήλ Παππάς υπήρξε μία απ τις αγνότερες μορφές του Aγώνα για την Aνεξαρτησία. Γεννήθηκε στη Δοβίστα Σερρών (σημ. Eμμανουήλ Παππάς) το 1772. Γιος κληρικού ανέπτυξε, παρά τις περιορισμένες [Read More]

• Alexander, the Southern Greeks and the Macedonian Language

  In Ancient Macedonia / 4 January 2012 / 0 comments

  

  Alexander the Great in the Battle of Issus (Photo @ Michael Papandronis http://alexandrosthegreek.blogspot.com) Common Claim by FYROM’s Propaganda: “Though Alexander spoke Greek, loved Homer and respected his tutor Aristotle, there is much evidence that he hated and despised the Greeks [Read More]