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 territory ruled by a […]

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 first caliber, a […]

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 on Thrace and […]

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 elightening on this subject, […]

In response to the misinformation and falsification of history from the propagandistic site of FYROM http://faq.macedonia.org we are going to provide references both by Ancient and Modern sources refuting the lies of FYROM pseudo-historians. - Ancient Sources - 1 . Quote: “Porus, bringing up his elephants, followed these movements, guided by the noise, and Alexander gradually led him to make […]

Ancient Sources 1.Quote: Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece“. Strabo, VII, Frg. 9 (Loeb, H.L. Jones) *Strabo, the famous ancient geographer makes it more than clear to everybody that ancient Macedonia, without doubt, IS A PART OF GREECE. 2. Quote: “Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done […]

FYROM Claim: Quote: Greek was the international language (Linqua Franca) of Ancient times thus it was adopted from Philip and Alexander like Latin and English much later.While Alexander the Great spoke Macedonian to his comrades and Macedonian brothers he spoke Greek to Asians, Greek people and the rest of the world Fact: Greek was not the “lingua franca” during the […]

One from the FYROM argument as about the Greekness or not of the ancient Macedonians is the claim that the Greeks that fought Great Alexander’s army are most from that was allied. Is that true and if no why. I am tried to explain what a Greek mercenary was in the Greek classical epoch. A mercenary in Antiquity had different […]

“Olympia“,taken place in Dion, was a festival where Macedonians honoured Olympius Zeus along with Muses and their dead during battles. The festival contained games, both “Gymnikoi” and Music, called Olympia. With the help of archaeology (2nd International Symposium Thessalonike 1973), we can say that these games were pre-Archelaos era but it seems during Archelaos’ time, they acquired more glory so […]

One of the most silenced stories that we never hear is that there were also Eminent Macedonians who sought refuge in the court of the Persian king Darius and also fought against Alexander’s army.{mospagebreak} Amyntas, Son of Antiochus A characteristical case is the one of Amyntas, son of Antiochus. According to Arrian (1.17.9;25.3) he had sought refuge with the Persian […]