Hellenic Migrations and Katadesmos: A Paradigm of Macedonian Speech Hellenic Migrations and Katadesmos: Historical Background Hellenic Migrations and Katadesmos: The Macedonian dialect Hellenic Migrations and Katadesmos: The language of Katadesmos Hellenic Migrations and Katadesmos: Remarks on Katadesmos and Conclusion Hellenic Migrations and Katadesmos: Bibliography     The Macedonian Dialect       Ancient grammarians divided the Greek language into four dialects (five if one adds the ...

Original Source: Akritas Blog Everybody knows the Borza claim that Alexander’s trierarchs “are named according to their ethnicity”. Let's read what Professor Miltiades Hatzopoulos answer as about this Borza thought :   The list of the Macedonian trierarchs comprises at least two persons whose impeccable Greek “ethnicity” the American historian would readily recognise: Nearchos son of Androtimos and ...

The peoples of Upper Macedonia were ethnically, economically, socially, culturally and politically more akin to the Epeirotic ethne than to the lower Macedonians (or The Thessalians). Hammond has long since drawn attention to the fact that they were called Mollossic ethne by the earliest writers, that like their Epeirote brothers they practised transhumant pastoralism, that ...