National Post Editor Department 1450 Don Mills Road, Suite 300 Don Mills, ON  M3B3R5 Fax: 1 (416) 368-2305 December 13, 2011 Re: “Time to let Macedonia play with the big boys”, Full Comment, November 28, 2011,  Metodija A. Koloski and Mark Branov “A Country Called Macedonia”, November 29, 2011, Met. A. Koloski and Mark Branov Dear Editor(s), I am writing to you this letter in ...

The 70 cultural antiquities which were seized recently in Macedonia (Northern Greece) were likely to travel in order to be "discovered" some day in FYROM, the newspaper ToVima reports.  These seized cultural antiquities who were linked with ancient Macedonians, an ancient Greek tribe, dated back from the 5th century BC. Archaeologists and Officials of EL.AS. (Greek Police) are considering them ...

              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. 17.4.9) The government of Persia had ...

A unique triangle of history and civilization in the heart of Macedonia: - Vergina/Aigai, the first capital, the famous nekropolis of the ancient Macedonian kings, - Dion, the secret city of ancient Macedonians - Pella, the glorious Hellenistic capital of the ancient Hellenic kingdom of Macedonia The heart of Macedonia lives in Greece. From the YouTube channel of KRASOPATIR

  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 ...

  Macedonian History: The Chryselephantine Shield from the Tomb II (Aigai/ Vergina) bearing the Greek Maiandros  in Macedonia, Greece  From the data at our disposal at present, we know that the Macedonians worshipped the twelve Olympian gods, both collectively and individually, and also Pluto, Persephone, Dionysos, Pan, Hestia, Heracles, Asklepios, Okeanos, Amphitrite, the Nereids, Thetys, Orpheus, the Diocouroi, Amphilochos, ...

      FYROM - A Slav comically posing as an ancient Macedonian. The absurd Obsession of FYROM’s Slavs with the Greek kingdom of ancient Macedon has reached epidemic levels     The Original article in Serbo-Croatian language:   http://www.tportal.hr/vijesti/svijet/147500/Cirkus-pod-Aleksandrovim-konjem.html   Translation of the following article: Vasko   Circus under Alexander's horse Release Date: 09.09.2011 11:00   Author: Bojan Stilin   With a pompous mass-gathering in the manner of socialist parades, which included the parade ...

One of the challenges which Balkans face at present is repairing the damage done to the regional reputation by current eruptions of irredentism and nationalism. In the ongoing dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) which has generated a great deal of political and academic debate on both sides all these ...

Since the Slavs of FYROM insist on defying  not only the overwhelming evidence coming from Ancient Literary and Archaeological sources but also Common Sense, i have a simple Quiz for them. During CLASSICAL GREECE (5th to 4th centuries BC - i.e. from the fall of the Athenian tyranny in 510 BC to the death of Alexander the Great in ...

Simon Hornblower is Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London. He has published two volumes of a Thucydides Commentary on(1991, 1996) and is now working on the third and final volume. His most recent books are Greek Personal Names: Their Value as Evidence  (co-edited, 2000), Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative  and the World of ...