Alexander I (ca. 498 – ca. 454 B.C.), king of Macedon is better known as “Alexander the Philhellene” (Gr:  Αλέξανδρος ο Φιλέλλην). A modern misconception which currently exist among a small number of scholars, claims that it would be a contradiction in itself to state  that an Hellene could not be called a Philhellene. Its easy to figure out from the following list of literary […]

 (Herodotus 5.22)   XXII. Now that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, AS THEY THEMSELVES SAY, I MYSELF CHANCE TO KNOW AND WILL PROVE IT in the later part of my history. Furthermore, the Hellenodicae who manage the contest at Olympia determined that it is so, [2] for when Alexander chose to contend and entered the lists for that purpose, […]