Simon Hornblower is Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London. He has published two volumes of a Thucydides Commentary on(1991, 1996) and is now working on the third and final volume. His most recent books are Greek Personal Names: Their Value as Evidence  (co-edited, 2000), Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative  and the World of Epinikian Poetry (2004), and Pindar’s […]

Georgi Stardelov, academic of the so-called MANU and Kiro Gligorov, FYROM’s first President denounce the imposition of antiqusation, the revision of identity of Slavs in FYROM presenting them as descendants of Ancient Macedonians.

  Some of the most usual fallacies used by FYROM’s hideous propaganda are the baseless assumptions included in the following statement: “The Greeks unanimously stereotyped the Macedonians as ‘barbarians’ and treated them in the same bigoted manner in which they treated all non-Greeks. After all, no Greek people/tribe was ever called “Barbarian“. This statement is most interesting for what it reveals about those supporting it. […]

By Miltiades Elia Bolaris Josif G., an author better known under the Italian-sounding pseudonym “Gandeto”, wrote an article in the May 2009 American Chronicle about the satrapal appointments of Alexander the Great. Josif G. aka J.S.G. Gandeto has made a name for himself in the Slavomacedonian diaspora of Canada and Australia as the author of the history revisionist book “Ancient […]

  Polybius (ca. 203–120 BC) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his book called ‘The Histories’ covering in detail the period of 220–146 BC.   [1](Philip V of Macedon speaking)  For on many occasions when I and the other Greeks sent embassies to you begging you to remove from your statutes the law empowering you to get booty […]

Miltiades Elia Bolaris Balkan Illusion – phantasia archaica: “Zaika. This is one of the most interesting ancient Macedonian female names. It may represent a female form of the present day Macedonian “zajak” (rabbit). In any case, there are numerous examples of names taken from names of animals. The names Zaia (Zaja) and Zaiko (Zajko) are present in todays’ Macedonian onomasticon..” […]

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Professor Kagan – Macedonians were fundamentally Greeks, that is to say they were Greek-Speakers and Ethnically Greek. Introduction to Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205) In this lecture, Professor Kagan tells the story of the rise of Philip and describes his early actions: unifying Macedon, defeating barbarian armies, and creating a new, professional, national army. According to Professor Kagan, through these […]

One of the best researches over the Ethnic diversity and dialects in Ptolemaic Egypt and especially in Alexandria,  comes from prof. W. Clarysse.  Prof. Clarysse after examining all the available evidence regarding the names of ancient Macedonians in the Alexandria of Egypt, concludes that “nearly all the names are Greek and only 3 hellenized families shows traces of foreign descent“. Furthermore, he adds “All […]

Greek intellectuals […] did not consider the Ancient Macedonians to be a Hellenic nation. Paparrigopoulos, for example, one of the first Modern Greek historians, in his book “General History” published in 1848 wrote: “Macedonian nation fulfilled, in the frame of the general world history, one completely different mission than the one of the Hellenic nation.” The terms “ethnos” (plural: ethne), […]