Post by kartadolofonos on Sept 9, 2008 19:14:25 GMT -5
Instead of arguing back and forth with a couple of box head mentally challenged retards who don't know the difference between night and day, lets all post some facts and quotes on the issue of Macedonia.
We obviously all know the truth, it is Greek and has been for 4,000 years.
But lets post the quotes and facts, a lot of which is not even from Greek sources but foreign sources.
. There are many quotes and facts.
I'll start with some.
Macedonia and the rest of Greece? So Macedonia was part of Ancient Greece, as Alexander the Great even knew so.
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So he is fighting for Greece? Why would that be, if the ancient Macedonians weren't Greek? Answer..because they were Greek.
hmm..among the Hellenes? So the Macedonians weren't a separate race, but were Greek.
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Flavious Josephus, "Antiquities of the Jews", Book 11.8.5[/quote]
So he considers and knows him self to be a GREEK!
Well would you look at that, Greek of Macedonia. Need I say more?
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So Megas Alexandros founded GREEK cities, spread GREEK culture, GREEK religion, to these lands. Why? Because he was Greek him self.
We obviously all know the truth, it is Greek and has been for 4,000 years.
But lets post the quotes and facts, a lot of which is not even from Greek sources but foreign sources.
. There are many quotes and facts.
I'll start with some.
Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed hegemon of the Greeks.
Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander II,14,4
Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander II,14,4
Macedonia and the rest of Greece? So Macedonia was part of Ancient Greece, as Alexander the Great even knew so.
T
here are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay and not much of it at that; we on the contrary shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops, Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes, they are the best and stoutest soldiers of Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia.
Arrian (The Campaigns of Alexander) Alexander talking to the troops before the battle. Book 2-7 Penguin Classics. Page 112. Translation by Aubrey De Seliucourt.
Arrian (The Campaigns of Alexander) Alexander talking to the troops before the battle. Book 2-7 Penguin Classics. Page 112. Translation by Aubrey De Seliucourt.
So he is fighting for Greece? Why would that be, if the ancient Macedonians weren't Greek? Answer..because they were Greek.
Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to a throne won for himself the greatest empire among the Hellenes (Greeks), while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.
Diodorus Siculus, "Histories", 16.95.1-2
Diodorus Siculus, "Histories", 16.95.1-2
hmm..among the Hellenes? So the Macedonians weren't a separate race, but were Greek.
After this Alexander left Dareius's mother, his daughters, and his son in Susa, providing them with persons to teach them the Greek language, and marching on with his army on the fourth day reached the Tigris River.
Diodorus Siculus, "Histories", 17.67.1
Diodorus Siculus, "Histories", 17.67.1
So they spoke Greek. Duhhh.
And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended.
Flavious Josephus, "Antiquities of the Jews", Book 11.8.5[/quote]
So he considers and knows him self to be a GREEK!
Tell your king (Xerxes), who sent you, how his Greek viceroy ( Alexander I) of Macedonia has received you hospitably.
Herodotus, " Histories", 5.20.4 ,Loeb
Herodotus, " Histories", 5.20.4 ,Loeb
Well would you look at that, Greek of Macedonia. Need I say more?
Men of Athens... In truth I would not tell it to you if I did not care so much for all Hellas (Greece); I myself am by ancient descent a Greek, and I would not willingly see Hellas change her freedom for slavery....
The speech of Alexander I of Macedonia when he was admitted to the Olympic games, Herodotus, " Histories", 9.45, ed. A. D. Godley
The speech of Alexander I of Macedonia when he was admitted to the Olympic games, Herodotus, " Histories", 9.45, ed. A. D. Godley
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Yet through Alexander (the Great) Bactria and the Caucasus learned to revere the gods of the Greeks ... Alexander established more than seventy cities among savage tribes, and sowed all Asia with Greek magistracies ... Egypt would not have its Alexandria, nor Mesopotamia its Seleucia, nor Sogdiana its Prophthasia, nor India its Bucephalia, nor the Caucasus a Greek city, for by the founding of cities in these places savagery was extinguished and the worse element, gaining familiarity with the better, changed under its influence.
Plutarch, " Moralia: On the Fortune of Alexander", I, 328d, 329a Loeb
Plutarch, " Moralia: On the Fortune of Alexander", I, 328d, 329a Loeb
So Megas Alexandros founded GREEK cities, spread GREEK culture, GREEK religion, to these lands. Why? Because he was Greek him self.