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Ancient Macedonians : Their Greek Ethnicity according to Romans

Ancient Macedonians : Their Greek Ethnicity according to Romans

              Ancient Macedonia: The Greek ethnicity of the Ancient Macedonians, according to Roman authors and statesmen.   Quintus Curtius Rufus Παράθεση: Alexander also summoned the delegates of the League of Corinth in order to have himself declared its Hegemon and, when he had obtained their support for his expedition against Persia, he returned to Macedonia (Diod. […]

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Ancient Macedonians and their Self-identification

Ancient Macedonians and their Self-identification

  In reality we have only scarce evidence on what the ancient Macedonians believed for themselves. However i will try to collect the available literary and archaeological evidence that would shed some light on the beliefs of the ancient macedonians during Classical and Hellenistic Ages. The available evidence shows that ancient Macedonians considered themselves to be Greek. Alexander I, king of Macedon 1. […]

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Ancient Literary Evidence : Distinction between Ancient Macedonians and Barbarians

Ancient Literary Evidence : Distinction between Ancient Macedonians and Barbarians

Collection of ancient literary Evidence which prove Ancient Macedonians were dinstict from Barbarians.   [1] During this period he [Alexander] defeated the Maedi who had risen in revolt, captured their city, drove out its barbarous inhabitants, established a colony of Greeks assembled from various regions and named it Alexandroupolis. [Plut. 7.9, page 260) [Here we have undisputed evidence of Macedonia’s Greekness. On […]

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