Oct
20
2009
The Macedonian Royal House according to Modern Historians
Posted by D-Mak in Alexander the Great, ancient macedonian ethnicity, Ancient Macedonian Kings, Articles, Modern Historians
* E Borza (1990) "In The Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon" pg. 80. "There was a PERSISTENT, WELL ATTESTED tradition in antiquity that told of a group of Greeks from Argos-descendants of Temenus, kinsman of Heracles-who came to Macedonia and established their rule over the Makedones, unifying them and providing a royal house." ...
Tags: alexander, ancient macedonians, apollo, argeadae, bengston, crossland, delphi, eugene borza, Greece, heracles, historians, isocrates, nicholas hammond, philip, Robin Lane Fox, royal house, temenidae, zeus
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