* Ernst Badian (1982) “Studies in the history of art Vol 10: Macedonia and Greece in Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Times”

“We have now become accustomed to regarding MACEDONIANS as northern GREEKS’ and, in extreme cases, to hearing Alexander’s conquests described as in essence GREEK CONQUESTS. The former CERTAINLY became TRUE, in Greek consciousness in the course of the Hellenistic age;the latter may be argued to be true`ex post facto’.” But it is an important question whether these assertions should properly be made in a fourth century B.C context” “Philip II, at least from the time of his victory over Phocis,Athens, and their allies in 346, prepared to proclaim himself the champion of a United Greece against the barbarians”

  ”…at this time the GAP between Greeks and Macedonians was by no means bridged. The work… toward bridging it, and the work of Alexander who was himself the result of that long PROCESS… was to take perhaps Another century to reach fruition. Perhaps it was not fully completed until both parties became CONSCIOUS of THEIR UNITY, As it had by then developed, in contrast to a connqueror from the barbarian West.”

 Quote: “… as Brunt rightly points out, an ethnic difference between Greeks and Macedonians was in Arrian’s own day SO REMOTE as to be practically beyond understanding.” [E.Badian Footnote #72..)

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