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    Quote Originally Posted by Bosniensis View Post
    He is Ancient Greek, don't make him angry
    Keep it halal bruh
    Being Greek is an experienced grounded into nation, not consumption.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aspar View Post
    According to John Haywood's "Atlas of World History":

    "Macedonia, a country considered by Greeks as a kingdom of barbarians, was inhabited by Illyrians, Thracians and greek Dorians".

    There is no agreement as to what was Ancient Macedonian language like. By some scholars considered as similar to Dorian greek dialect, by others as similar to Aeolian greek dialect, by some as a separate dialect of Greek, and by some others as a language distinct from Greek, even if related.

    Another interesting fact is that when in 460 BC king Alexander I of Macedonia wanted to take part in Olympic games, he was initially not allowed to do so: ''ΟΥ ΒΑΡΒΑΡΩΝ ΑΓΩΝΙΣΤΕΟΝ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΤΟΝ ΑΓΩΝΑ, ΑΛΛΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ'' (in English: "no barbarians can contest the games but [only] Hellenes").

    Only later, when he invented a story that his dynasty originated from kings of the Greek city of Argos, they allowed him to participate.

    He was also called Philhellene, meaning friend of the Greeks, very good indicator that his origin wasn't Greek but he was someone who admired Greeks so much that he accepted their culture and became Hellene himself.

    Also if we go by racial means and analyse the busts of the Macedonians, we will see that they were quite different than the Greeks.

    This is the bust of Alexander the Great made by the Greek sculptor Lysippus:





    Although a Roman copy, it is regarded as the most accurate description of Alexander...

    As we can see, he doesn't look like typical Greek at all, with that big and slightly concave nose and with his heavy Dinaric features...

    The Greeks make jokes for people having similar appearance like Alexander calling them "Flatheads".

    What people need to realize is that being Greek by origin and being Hellene by culture is not the same...

    Again uneducated people from Fyrom in my way, study the history deeper you morons.
    Greeks were separated cities and kingdoms that time so Greeks as a whole never called macedonians barbarians.
    Only Athenian Demosthenes do that and it was for political reason

    Also barbarians have many meanings in greek language, we use it not only for non-greeks but also for uneducated greeks
    or for greeks that they dont speak the Attic dialect or are rude etc.
    Macedonians spoken Doric dialect like Spartans, and this dialect its greek language and no different

    Study better and you can find the first macedonians and their king say that their origin are from Argos,
    they are the same tribe like Spartans

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