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Spartans would have thrived on Twitter

Spartans would have thrived on Twitter

Spartans would have thrived on Twitter Spartans prided themselves in never using more than six words when one would do. This is why they would have been brilliant on Twitter. Each tweet has a maximum of 140 characters. This explains why Moammar Gadaffi is not on Twitter. You have to use as few words as possible when expressing, explaining and […]

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Segregation between Ancient Greek tribes in literary sources

Segregation between Ancient Greek tribes in literary sources

Presentation  of ancient Greek tribes being segregated by the rest of Greeks In the cases of Athenians: “When the estrangement which had arisen between the Athenians and the Hellenes became noised abroad, there came to Athens ambassadors from the Persians and from the Hellenes. [Diodoros of Sicily 11.28.1]   “…the Hellenes gathered in congress decreed to make common cause with […]

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Both Ignorance and Forgery (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – Greece)

Both Ignorance and Forgery (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – Greece)   Australian Macedonian Advisory Council September 10, 2009 It was not my intension to comment Mr. Gandeto´s attempt to respond to my article titled as “Total ignorance or deliberate forgery” http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/116721 since neither the revealing of his ignorance on basic details of ancient Greek history and literature once more, […]

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I am Alexander the Macedonian

      The History of Herodotus   44. After the inquiry about the oracles and the exhortation given by Mardonios night came on and the guards were set: and when night was far advanced, and it seemed that there was quiet everywhere in the camps, and that the men were in their deepest sleep, then Alexander the son of […]

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The fyromians based their propaganda in a misunderstanding!

The fyromians based their propaganda in a misunderstanding!

  Many people often ask me what is the difference between a Greek and a Macedonian, and if Macedonians were Greeks of a different nation. Actually this is the same question that most foreign people with little or a basic -and we all have to admit rich and many times complicated – historical knowledge have.  Basically this is the exact […]

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References from Ancient Sources to the Panhellenic character of Alexander’s campaign

References from Ancient Sources to the Panhellenic character of Alexander’s campaign

  [1] Quote: It has been reported to me that it was the rhetorician Isocrates who was responsible for the servitude that the Macedonian imposed on the Persians. For the fame of the speech Panegyricus, which Isocrates delivered to the Greeks, spread to Macedonia, And it was this that first stirred Philip’s animosity towards Asia. When Philip died, the speech […]

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