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 Laomedon son […]

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 they did not live in […]