Most of us already know there is a part of modern historians attributing the connection of ancient Macedonians - most importantly the Argead royal house - with Heracleids and Dorians as propaganda invented of Alexander I 'Philhellene'. This claim is easily refuted if anyone analyzes ancient Macedonian names, especialy royal names, prior to the time of Alexander ...

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-2962?tocId=2962 In the biography of emperor Hadrian on encyclopaedia britannica, we can find written: Quote: He created the Panhellenion, a federation of Greeks that was based at Athens, which gave equal representation to all Greek cities and thereafter played a conspicuous part in the history of Roman Greece. According to the Panhellenion Leaque who started about 131 AD, a ...

One of the usual arguments of Fyrom's propagandists is that ancient Macedon was entirely different from the greek city-states. Therefore for them this is an alledged 'evidence' of the non-greekness of Macedon. Lets check out the differences and similarities between ancient Macedon and ancient Thessalia. In the first half of the 4th century Macedonia remained a tribal ...

Taken from the book of Lewis Vance Cummings "Alexander the Great"  Page 20 Philip had been a boy of thirteen when he was taken as a hostage to Thebes. He had been well treated, and placed in charge of Epaminondas, perhaps the greatest Greek of that day. The Thcban was a man of culture, an orator of the ...

MACEDONIA - CULTS Nowadays historians generally agree that the Macedonians form part of the Greek ethnos; hence they also shared in the common religious and cultural features of the Hellenic world. Consequently most of the gods worshipped in Greece can also be found in Macedonia. However regional characteristics have to be noted. Especially in the areas bordering ...

Euripides spent many years of his life and finally died in Macedonia. Many of his tragedies were written and played while he was in Macedonia. This would have been impossible, had the Macedonians been 'barbarians'. This is because in one of these tragedies, 'Iphigeneia in Aulis', the Greek superiority over the barbarians is emphasized. MIT classics is ...