Quote: After that victory Philip imposed his own conditions on the whole Greek mainland, making a treaty with all significant cities except Sparta, the so-called 'League of Corinth'. This treaty obliged the Greek cities to provide soldiers for Philip's campaigns, but it did not, contrary to what had been feared at Athens, interfere with the constitutions ...

Quote: Archelaus, with Greek mercenaries in his pay, laid the foundations for a centralized administration, built roads, coined money and organized local markets in the interior. His court was similar to that of a Greek tyrant; Zeuxis was often there, and Euripides settled there, after leaving Athens where he had not been understood. The Tides of History ...

Quote: 1. Early history to Alexander the Great. In the centuries after the *Dorian Invasion (c. 1100 BC) many new peoples entered Macedonia. In historical times the royal house traced its descent from the mythical Temenus, king of Argos, who was one of the *Heracleidae, and more immediately from Perdiccas I, who left Argos for Illyria, ...

Quote: . The first foundation of a monarchy which was destined to rise to such a height of power was laid by Caranus, a descendant of Hercules, who led a colony from Ar'gos to the province of Æ'mathia, which borders on the Therma'ic gulf. 3. His descendants continually enlarged their dominions by subjecting or expelling several ...

Quote: Amyntas belonged to a collateral branch of the Temenidæ of Agros. During the disturbances which interrupted the legitimate succession of the Argive kings (vol. i. p. 271), about the middle of the ninth century B. C., Caranus had come into Macedonia and had obtained royal power among the mountain tribes; and this royal power became ...

Quote: His Macedonians murmured at his Oriental dress and manners, but Alexander was always a Greek at heart, the lines of Homer always rang in his ears, and he fancied himself a reincarnation of Achilles pursuing his Phrygian Hectors over the dusty plains of Troy. The Glory That Was Greece: A Survey of Hellenic Culture & Civilization Book ...

Quote: I fear that I have not been wholly consistent in my use of the term “Macedonian.” For the record, let me state that I believe Macedonians, ancient and modern, are Greeks. But it is also a fact that ancient Macedonians distinguished themselves from Greeks, as the Greeks distinguished themselves from Macedonians. A Texan is an ...

Quote: The literary evidence for these early years is sparse, but what there is seems to accord with archaeological opinion that the Macedonian tribes ousted the indigenous peoples of the area and established themselves at Aegae near the Thermaic Gulf where they coalesced into an identifiable nation. Scholarship has long been divided on the question of ...

Quote: Herodotos' fascination with ethnicity permeates his Histories, which is regarded as the world's earliest extant anthropological study as much as its earliest extant history. Rosalind Thomas, in "Ethnicity, Genealogy, and Hellenism in Herodotus" (213-233), chooses four cases -- the Macedonians, the Spartans, the Athenians, and the Ionians -- and finds in each a polemic. Different ...

1. Homer: Founder of Western Literature 2. Thales: Founder of Western Science 3. Themistocles: Defender of Greek civilizaation 4. Pericles: Democratic Reformer 5. Plato: Founder of Western Philosophy 6. Alexander the Great: Disseminator of Greek culture "Twelve Greeks and Romans Who Changed the World" By Carl J. Richard Back