Simon Hornblower is Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London. He has published two volumes of a Thucydides Commentary on(1991, 1996) and is now working on the third and final volume. His most recent books are Greek Personal Names: Their Value as Evidence (co-edited, 2000), Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry (2004), and Pindar’s […]

It appears to be really embarassing for Skopjans, whenever they find any archaeological discovery, this will reveal explicitly the…Greekness of ancient Macedonians. Furthermore, the archaeological evidence completely shatters their own illusions of grandeur. Pics from the statue of goddess Nike unearthed today by archaeologists working at the modern Styberra locality, near the remains of a gymnasium. Seems that Skopjans must…re-consider their own […]

Quote: 1) “The latest archaeological findings have confirmed that Macedonia took it’s name from a tribe of tall , Greek-speaking people , the Makednoi …” 2) “The Macedonian kingdom streched more or less as far north as the present northern border of Greece.” 3) “The “vulgar” Macedonians were not unanimously accepted by “refined” southern Greeks , especialy the Atheneans , […]