Miltiades Elia Bolaris The following article is being published simultaneously by the AMERICAN CHRONICLE. Following a brief elegy to the greatness of Plutarch, an ancient Greek writer best known for his "Moralia" and the "Parallel lives", the Slavomacedonian propagandist going by the Italian sounding pseudonym Gandeto proceeded to develop his ...

Alexander's men wore linothorax, a highly effective type of body armor created by laminating together layers of linen, research finds. This mosaic of Alexander the Great shows the king wearing linothorax -- an armor made from laminated linen. Martin Beckmann By Rossella Lorenzi A Kevlar-like armor might have helped Alexander the Great (356–323 B.C.) conquer nearly the ...

By Rossella Lorenzi | Mon Jan 11, 2010 03:54 AM ET A Kevlar-like armor might have helped Alexander the Great (356–323 B.C.) conquer nearly the entirety of the known world in little more than two decades, according to new reconstructive archaeology research. Presented at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Anaheim, Calif., the ...

One of the best researches over the Ethnic diversity and dialects in Ptolemaic Egypt and especially in Alexandria,  comes from prof. W. Clarysse.  Prof. Clarysse after examining all the available evidence regarding the names of ancient Macedonians in the Alexandria of Egypt, concludes that "nearly all the names are Greek and only 3 hellenized families shows traces of ...

A. Testimonia (a) In a scene from the Attic comedy "Macedonians", by the 5th-century writer Strattis, an Athenian asks ή σφύραινα δ' έ'στι τίς;('sled-fish, what do you mean?), and a Macedonian replies "κέστραν μεν ΰμμες ώττικοΐ κικλήσκετε" ('wha ye Attics ca' a hammer-fush, ma freen'). In order to appreciate the value of the Macedonian's reply for ...

Australian Macedonian Advisory Council November 20, 2008 As we emphatically pointed out in our previous article, the art of commiting provocative falsification and blatant violation of the historical reality finds full use into the propaganda originating from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). If we are looking for a pure sample of the deplorable "taking text ...

We have been accustomed to witness every day new false and, in certain cases ludicrus, allegations from FYROM's propaganda in their struggle to distort the view of Plutarch about ancient Macedonians of being another Greek tribe, as it was evidently shown before in this blog. As usual FYROM's propaganda tends to use text taken out of context in ...

Plutarch "The Age of Alexander" Penguin Classics [1] On his father's side Alexander was descended from Hercules through Caranus, and on his mother's from Aeacus through Neoptolemus: so much is accepted by all authorities without question. (Plut. 7.2 page 252) [The fact that Alexander was Greek by both his parents went unquestioned by all authorities] [2] The first was that ...

            ANCIENT GREEKS REFERING TO THE MACEDONIANS AS GREEK: 1. Quote: How highly should we honour the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not ...

But if you consider the effects of Alexander’s instruction, you will see that he educated the Hyrcanians to contract marriages, taught the Arachosians to till the soil, and persuaded rhe Sogdians to support their parents, not to kill them, and the Persians to respect their mothers, not to marry them. Most admirable philosophy which induced ...