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• Έδεσσα, Γιανιτσά, Πέλλα, 13.07.2008
• 02:24

  History of Macedonia Blog

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  http://www.History-of-macedonia.com
  
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  Alexander the Great:
  Origins of Alexander
  Is Alexander the Great Greek?
  The Destruction of Thebes
  Plutarch on Alexander's bringing Greek civilisation to Asia
  Ancient Sources about Alexander's Panhellenic Campaign
  Bible about Alexander the Great
  Alexander King of Yavans
  Exchange of letters between Alexander the Great and Porus
  Mural of 1568 calls Alexander king of Hellenes
  Alexander and the Greeks - case of Agonipos
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  Ancient sources about Alexanders army Greek character
  Ancient sources about Macedonia as a Greek Land
  Ancient Greek references to Macedonians as Greeks
  Modern Historians about Macedonian Royal House
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  List of Ancient Macedonian kings
  Nicholas Hammonds Interview about Macedonia
  Etymology of 100 most famous ancient Macedonian Names
  Was Greek the Linqua franca of ancient times prior to Alexander
  Falsified versions and mistranslations of ancient sources about Macedonia
  King Archelaos and his portrayal as 'Barbarian'
  Eminent Macedonians among Greek mercenaries of Darius
  Greek Navy in Alexander's campaign
  Sibylline Prophesies
  Olympia in Dion
  Ancient Macedonians in Olympic games
  Persian Story of Zulqarneen
  The Hellenization's argument contradiction
  Prof. Badian's views about the incident of Eumenes - Xennias
  List of known non-Macedonian Greeks in Alexander's army
  Ancient Macedon and Thessalia - Case of Jason of Pherai
  Philip fulfiled his mentors Epaminondas dream to unite Greece
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  The Heracleid origin of ancient Macedonians
  Hadrian, Thessalonica and Panhellenion League
  Justin sources - Marsyas of Macedon
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  Ancient Macedonian Language Part IV
  Ancient Macedonian Language Part V
  Ancient Macedonian Language by Marcus Templar
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• Έδεσσα, Γιανιτσά, Πέλλα, 22.07.2007
• 18:44

  Religion of ancient Macedonians from ancient sources

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  Having settled these affairs, he returned into Macedonia. He then offered to the Olympian Zeus the sacrifice which had been instituted by Archelaus, and had been customary up to that time;
  
  (Arrian Anab. I 11.1)
  
  

  It is said he [Alexander] also held a public contest in honour of Muses

  
  
  (Arrian Anab. I 11.2)
  
  

  when he was about the middle of the channel of the hellespont he sacrificed a bull to Poseidon and the Nereids and poured forth a libation to them into the sea from a golden goblet

  
  
  (Arrian Anab. I 11)
  
  
  
  
  

  they say also that he was the first man to step out of the ship in full armour on the land of Asia, and that he erected altars to Zeus, the protector of people landing, to Athena and to Heracles

  
  
  (Arrian Anab. I 11.6)
  
  

  Philip, after this vision, sent Chaeron of Megalopolis to consult the oracle of Apollo at Delphi, by which he was commanded to perform sacrifice, and henceforth pay particular honour, above all other gods, to Zeus;

  
  
  (Plutarch, The life of Alexander)
  
  

  He [Alexander he Great] erected altars, also, to the gods, which the kings of the Praesians even in our time do honour to when they pass the river, and offer sacrifice upon them after the Greek manner.

  
  
  (Plutarch, The life of Alexander)
  
  

  Along with lavish display of every sort, Philip included in the procession statues of the twelve Gods brought with great artistry and adorned with a dazzling show of wealth to strike awe to the beholder, and along with these was conducted a thirteenth statue, suitable for a god, that of Philip himself, so that the king exhibited himself enthroned among the twelve Gods.

  
  
  (Diodorus Histories, Chapter 16, 95.2)
  
  

  He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad.

  
  
  (Diodorus Histories, Chapter 16, 91.5-6)
  
  
  

  The future prosperity [of the historical general] Seleukos was foreshadowed by unmistakable signs. When he was about to set forth from Makedonia with Alexandros [the Great], and was sacrificing at Pella [in Makedonia] to Zeus, the wood that lay on the altar advanced of its own accord to the image and caught fire without the application of a light.

  
  
  Pausanias, Guide to Greece 1.16.1
  
  

  Delos would win the foremost guerdon from the Mousai, since she it was that bathed Apollon, the lord of minstrels, and swaddled him, and was the first to accept him for a god. Even as the Mousai abhor him who sings not of Pimpleia [town in Pieria/Macedonia sacred to the Mousai] so Phoibos abhors him who forgets Delos.

  
  
  Callimachus, Hymn IV to Delos 3
  
  

  They say that afterwards [the establishment of a shrine to three Mousai on Mount Helikon in Boiotia] Pieros, a Makedonian, after whom the mountain in Makedonia was named, came to Thespiae and established nine Mousai, changing their names to the present ones

  
  
  Pausanias, Guide to Greece 9.39.3
  
  

  Speaking of Alexander the Greatʼs luxury, Ephippus of Olynthus in his book On the Death of Hephaestion and Alexander says that in the park there was erected for him a golden throne and couches with silver legs, on which he sat when transacting business in the company of his boon companions. And Nicobule says that during dinner every sort of contestant exerted their efforts to entertain the king, and that in the course of his last dinner Alexander in person acted from memory a scene from the Andromeda of Euripides, and pledging toasts in unmixed wine with zest compelled the others also to do likewise. Ephippus, again, says that Alexander also wore the sacred vestments at his dinner parties, at one time putting on the purple robe of Ammon, and thin slippers and horns just like the gods, at another time the costume of Artemis, which he often wore even in his chariot, wearing the Persian garb and showing above the shoulders the bow and hunting-spear of the goddess, while at still other times he was garbed in the costume of Hermes; on other occasions as a rule, and in every-day use, he wore a purple riding-cloak, a purple tunic with white stripes, and the Macedonian hat with the royal fillet; but on social occasions he wore the winged sandals and broad-brimmed hat on his head, and carried the caduceus in his hand; yet often, again, he bore the lionʼs skin and club in imitation of Heracles. What wonder that the Emperor Commodus of our time also had the club of Hercules lying beside him in his chariot with the lionʼs skin spread out beneath him, and desired to be called Hercules, seeing that Alexander, Aristotleʼs pupil, got himself up like so may gods, to say nothing of the goddess Artemis? Alexander sprinkled the very floor with valuable perfumes and scented wine. In his honour myrrh and other kinds of incense went up in smoke; a religious stillness and silence born of fear held fast all who were in his presence. For he was hot-tempered and murderous, reputed, in fact, to be melancholy-mad. At Ecbatana he arranged a festival in honour of Dionysus, everything being supplied at the feast with lavish expense, and Satrabates the satrap entertained all the troops.

  
  
  Ath. Deipn. Book XII. 537 d – 540 a
  
  

  Concerning the professional “companions” Philetaerus says this in The Huntress: “No wonder there is a shrine to the Companion everywhere, but nowhere in all Greece is there one to the Wife.” But I know also of a festival, the Hetairideia, celebrated in Magnesia, not in honour of these “companions” (hetaerae) but for a different reason, which is mentioned by Hegesander in his Commentaries, writing thus: The Magnesians celebrate the festival of the Hetairideia. They record that Jason the son of Aeson, after gathering the Argonauts together, was the first to sacrifice to Zeus Hetaireios* and that he called the festival Hetairideia. And the kings of Macedonia also celebrate with sacrifices the Hetairideia.

  
  
  Ath Deipn. Book XIII. 572 d – e
  
  

  ....but there is an inscription at Dium in Macedonia, saying that he was killed by lightning, and it runs thus:Here the bard buried by the Muses lies, The Thracian Orpheus of the golden lyre; Whom mighty Zeus, the Sovereign of the skies, Removed from earth by his dread lightning's fire.

  
  
  Diogenes Laertius 1.8
  
  [history-of-macedonia.com]
  
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• Έδεσσα, Γιανιτσά, Πέλλα, 30.03.2007
• 00:05

  History of Macedonia

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  Alexander the Great:

  • Origins of Alexander
  • Is Alexander the Great Greek?
  • The Destruction of Thebes
  • Plutarch on Alexander's bringing Greek civilisation to Asia
  • Letter to Darius
  • Literary ancient sources about Alexander's drinking
  • Ancient Sources about Alexander's Panhellenic Campaign
  • Bible about Alexander the Great
  • Alexander King of Yavans

    Ancient Macedonian History :
  • Modern Historians about ancient Macedonia NEW
  • Ancient Sources about ancient Macedonia NEW
  • Ancient Macedonian Testimonies about their own Ethnicity
  • Nicholas Hammond’s Interview about Macedonia
  • Etymology of 100 most famous ancient Macedonian Names
  • Ancient sources about Alexander’s army Greek character
  • Ancient sources about Macedonia as a Greek Land
  • Ancient Greeks references to Macedonians as Greeks
  • Was Greek the ‘Linqua franca’ of ancient times prior to Alexander
  • Falsified versions and mistranslations of ancient sources about Macedonia
  • King Archelaos and his portrayal as 'Barbarian'
  • Modern Historians about Macedonian Royal House
  • Eminent Macedonians among Greek mercenaries of Darius
  • Greek Navy in Alexander's campaign
  • Sibylline Prophesies
  • Olympia in Dion
  • Ancient Macedonians in Olympic games
  • Persian Story of Zulqarneen
  • The Hellenization's argument contradiction
  • Prof. Badian's views about the incident of Eumenes - Xennias
  • List of known non-Macedonian Greeks in Alexander's army
  • Ancient Macedon and Thessalia - Case of Jason of Pherai
  • Philip fulfiled his mentor’s Epaminondas dream to unite Greece
  • Cults in Ancient Macedonia
  • Eurypides and Macedonians
  • The Heracleid origin of ancient Macedonians
  • Hadrian, Thessalonica and Panhellenion League
    Linguistics :
  • Modern linguists about Ancient Macedonian language
  • The Language of ancient Macedonians
  • Ancient Macedonian language - Hoffman
  • Ancient Macedonian Language Part II
  • Ancient Macedonian Language Part III
  • Ancient Macedonian Language Part IV
  • Ancient Macedonian Language Part V
  • Ancient Macedonian Language by Marcus Templar
  • Ancient Macedonian language recognized as Greek dialect
  • The misuse of the term Philhellene during Antiquity 
  Biographies:
  • Nicesipolis of Pherae
  • Cynane
  • Thessalonike

   

    Medieval History of Macedonia
  • Byzantine Sources about greekness of Medieval Macedonia
  • List of famous Medieval Macedonians
  • Sources on St' Cyril and Methodius Greek Ethnicity
  • 14th Century Names of Lay Proprietors in the Themes of Thessaloniki and Strymon
  • Macedonia in the 16th and 17th Centuries
  • Macedonia preceeding Turkish Occupation
  • The final capture of Thessalonica by Turks (1430)
  • Ancient/Modern Sources about Thessalonica 
  Modern History of Macedonia
  • Greek schools of Pelagonia during 19th cent.
  • Greek Macedonian newspapers of late 19th cent.- early 20th cent.
  • Four of the best Historians, describe Balkans in 1915
  • Books in Greek education prior to 1936 about Macedonia
  • Paidomazoma - Communist children abductions in the Greek civil war

     

    F.Y.R.O.M Propaganda
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  • Indisputable Evidence of FYROM’s Slavs being originally Bulgarians
  • FYROM’s revisionist falsifications - Rejected by the World’s academia
  • Linguistic origins of F.Y.R.O.M - From Bulgarian dialect to “Macedonian” language
  • The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part I
  • The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part II
  • The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part III
  • The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part IV
  • The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part V
  • The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part VI
  • The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part VII
  • The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part VIII
  • Fighting Fyrom Propaganda #1 - Tzar Samouel
  • 1910 Census and fabrications
  • The so-called FYROM’s claim about “occupation” of Macedonia in 1913 exposed
  • Letter from FYROMs Slavs to Oliver Stone
  • Propaganda of FYROMs site HistoryofMacedonia.Org exposed - Part I
  • Propaganda of FYROMs site HistoryofMacedonia.Org exposed - Part II
  • Propaganda of FYROMs site HistoryofMacedonia.Org Exposed - Part III
  • Propaganda of FYROMs site HistoryofMacedonia.Org Exposed - Part IV
  • BIG Stefov Lie # 6 ,”Greeks Are a Superior Race”
  • BIG Stefov Lie # 8,”Tito created the Macedonian Nation”
  • BIG Stefov Lie # 10, ‘Greeks are Turks, Albanians, Slavs and Vlachs
  • Big Stefov Lie #11, ‘Saint Cyrill and Methodios are Greek’
  • BIG Stefov Lies # 17: “Ancient Macedonians were not Greeks"
  • Big Stefov Lies # 18_”Philip II United the Greeks"
  • BIG Stefov Lie # 19 “4,000 years of Greek Civilization
  • BIG Stefov Lie # 20_The Final Answer in His Lies
  • Fyrom's lies over Slavic populations genetics Part I
  • Fyrom's lies over Slavic populations genetics Part II.
  • Modern Bulgarian Heroes…claimed by FYROM
  • Fake Letter from Alexander in…nationalistic site of FYROM
  • De-Bulgarization and persecutions of Bulgarians in FYROM
  • Diplomatic Sources on Ilinden - a Bulgarian Uprising

   F.A.Q - Frequently Asked Questions on Macedonia by Alexandros Gerbessiotis

  FALLACIES AND FACTS ON THE MACEDONIAN ISSUE - Marcus Templar

  
  
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• Έδεσσα, Γιανιτσά, Πέλλα, 04.03.2007
• 16:16

  Ancient historians about Macedonia - Herodotus

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  “Now that the men of this family are Hellenes, sprung from Perdiccas, as they themselves affirm, is a thing which I can declare on my own knowledge, and which I will hereafter make plainly evident. That they are so has been already adjudged by those who manage the Pan-Hellenic contest at Olympia“

  
  
  (Herodotus, The Histories 8.43)
  
  

  “Tell your king who sent you how his Hellenic viceroy of Macedonia has received you hospitably… “

  
  
  (Herodotus V, 20, 4)
  
  

  “Now that these descendants of Perdiccas are Hellenes, as they themselves say, I myself chance to know”

  
  
  (Herodotus V, 22, 1)
  
  

  “Xerxes, having so spoken, held his peace. (SS 1.) Whereupon Mardonius took the word, and said: ….I myself have had experience of these men when I marched against them by the orders of thy father; and though I went as far as Macedonia, and came but a little short of reaching Athens itself, yet not a soul ventured to come out against me to battle. ……But, notwithstanding that they have so foolish a manner of warfare, yet these Greeks, when I led my army against them to the very borders of Macedonia, did not so much as think of offering me battle.”

  
  
  (Herodotus Book VII)
  
  

  “…but the Dorians on the contrary have been constantly on the move; their home in Deucalion’s reign was Phthiotis and in the reign of Dorus son of Hellen the country known as Histiaeotis in the neighbourhood of Ossa and Olympus; driven from there by the Cadmeians they settled in Pindus and were known as Macedons; thence they migrated to Dryopis, and finally to the Peloponnese, where they got their present name of Dorians.”

  
  
  Herodotus, Book I, 56
  
  

  “…Three brothers of the lineage of Temenos came as banished men from Argos to Illyria, Gavganis and Aeropos and Perdikkas, and worked for the king that was there… When the king learned that when the queen baked the bread of Perdikkas, it doubled its size, than of the the other breads, he considered that as a miracle and ordered the 3 brothers to leave his kingdom. The brothers required their payment. Then the king told them to take the sun as a payment. Gavganis and Aeropos where taken by surprise and the youngest brother, Perdikkas, accepted the offer. He took out his sword, circled it 3 times and took the sun, which he placed in his underarm and left with his brothers…”

  
  
  Herodotus VIII,137
  
  

  “The composition of the fleet was as follows: 16 ships from Lacedaemon, the same number from Corinth as at Artemisium, 15 from Sicyon, 10 from Epidaurus, 5 form Troezen, 3 from Hermione. The people of all these places except Hermione are of Dorian and Macedonian blood, and had last emigrated from Erineus, Pindus, and Dryopis.”

  
  
  Herodotus, Book VIII ,43
  
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• Έδεσσα, Γιανιτσά, Πέλλα, 03.03.2007
• 23:46

  Ancient historians about Macedonia - Thucydides

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  “The country by the sea which is now called Macedonia… Alexander, the father of Perdiccas, and his forefathers, who were originally Temenidae from Argos“

  
  
  (Thuc. II, 99, 3 [Loeb, C. F. Smith])
  
  

  “In all there were about three thousand Hellenic heavy infantry, accompanied by all the Macedonian cavalry with the Chalcidians, near one thousand strong, besides an immense crowd of barbarians.”

  
  
  (Thukydides 4.124)
  
  

  “The Hellenic troops with him consisted of the Ambraciots, Leucadians, and Anactorians, and the thousand Peloponnesians with whom he came; the barbarian of a thousand Chaonians, who, belonging to a nation that has no king, were led by Photys and Nicanor, the two members of the royal family to whom the chieftainship for that year had been confided. With the Chaonians came also some Thesprotians, like them without a king, some Molossians and Atintanians led by Sabylinthus, the guardian of King Tharyps who was still a minor, and some Paravæans, under their king Oroedus, accompanied by a thousand Orestians, subjects of King Antichus and placed by him under the command of Oroedus. There were also a thousand Macedonians sent by Perdiccas without the knowledge of the Athenians, but they arrived too late. With this force Cnemus set out, without waiting for the fleet from Corinth. Passing through the territory of Amphilochian Argos, and sacking the open village of Limnæa, they advanced to Stratus the Acarnanian capital; this once taken, the rest of the country, they felt convinced, would speedily follow”

  
  
  (Thucydides Chapter VIII)
  
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