07-16-2006, 10:02 AM
Well, there are many... "well-meaning" persons in our days, saying (and twisting ancient scripts) that Macedonians WERE NOT a Greek faction!
This is totaly untrue, inaccurated & stupid...
They "establising" their theory on the OTHER Ancient Greek factions' repulsion for the Macedonians (they've called them "barbarians" and such - "Barbarian" werb comes from their perception of "foreign" languages, not DORIC or IONIC, that they sound like... "Bar-bar" much)...
Macedonians WERE Greeks like the rest and present Macedonia (MOST part of the ancient one) is a Greek State's county...
The ONLY problem that these "well-meaning" persons "bracing" their theory, is that Ancient Macedonians were a VERY brash/rough/rusty/countrified folk, mostly cattle/sheep breeders, living mostly on mountains in villages, with no serious culture...
That was BEFORE PHILLIP II (the most GREAT person that Macedonia born!) and his son OF COURSE, Alexander The GREAT (the second GREAT person that Macedonia born!)...
Phillip II "took" his folk from the mountains and made them live in CITIES, in plains! They've start making their own culture, as Macedonia was one of the RICHER nations (with the gold-mines of Chalkidike & Thrace) and Phillip II was able to INVITE MANY philosophers/poets/scientists/etc. to live in Macedonia and "UPGRATE" the Macedonia's culture...
Macedonic Greek language (yes, they spoken GREEKS!), was a Greek language with many different dialect elements, LIKE ALL GREEK factions had - and STILL HAVING in modern Greece!... The rest Greeks were spoken IONIC dialect (after the Athenians' domination in Greece's era) and OF COURSE there was the DORIC dialect, spoken from DORIC Greek factions, like Spartans for example (Macedonic dialect "looked" like DORIC, had DORIC elements, but ALSO "macedonic" local elements)...
Also... take note that ALL GREEKS (moderns too!), don't like "new-comers" on their shoulders. Macedonia was the "new-born" order/power and they were... bumpkins, for Zeus' shake!!!
That's why the rest Greeks didn't like them much...
...
This discription looking authentic, though... "Hellenistic" to me, studing the shapes/look of some letters...
Regards...
This is totaly untrue, inaccurated & stupid...
They "establising" their theory on the OTHER Ancient Greek factions' repulsion for the Macedonians (they've called them "barbarians" and such - "Barbarian" werb comes from their perception of "foreign" languages, not DORIC or IONIC, that they sound like... "Bar-bar" much)...
Macedonians WERE Greeks like the rest and present Macedonia (MOST part of the ancient one) is a Greek State's county...
The ONLY problem that these "well-meaning" persons "bracing" their theory, is that Ancient Macedonians were a VERY brash/rough/rusty/countrified folk, mostly cattle/sheep breeders, living mostly on mountains in villages, with no serious culture...
That was BEFORE PHILLIP II (the most GREAT person that Macedonia born!) and his son OF COURSE, Alexander The GREAT (the second GREAT person that Macedonia born!)...
Phillip II "took" his folk from the mountains and made them live in CITIES, in plains! They've start making their own culture, as Macedonia was one of the RICHER nations (with the gold-mines of Chalkidike & Thrace) and Phillip II was able to INVITE MANY philosophers/poets/scientists/etc. to live in Macedonia and "UPGRATE" the Macedonia's culture...
Macedonic Greek language (yes, they spoken GREEKS!), was a Greek language with many different dialect elements, LIKE ALL GREEK factions had - and STILL HAVING in modern Greece!... The rest Greeks were spoken IONIC dialect (after the Athenians' domination in Greece's era) and OF COURSE there was the DORIC dialect, spoken from DORIC Greek factions, like Spartans for example (Macedonic dialect "looked" like DORIC, had DORIC elements, but ALSO "macedonic" local elements)...
Also... take note that ALL GREEKS (moderns too!), don't like "new-comers" on their shoulders. Macedonia was the "new-born" order/power and they were... bumpkins, for Zeus' shake!!!
That's why the rest Greeks didn't like them much...
...
This discription looking authentic, though... "Hellenistic" to me, studing the shapes/look of some letters...
Regards...
aka Romilos
"Ayet`, oh Spartan euandro... koroi pateron poliatan... laia men itin provalesthe,
...dori d`eutolmos anhesthe, ...mi phidomenoi tas zoas. Ouh gar patrion ta Sparta!"
- The Lacedaimonian War Tune -
"Ayet`, oh Spartan euandro... koroi pateron poliatan... laia men itin provalesthe,
...dori d`eutolmos anhesthe, ...mi phidomenoi tas zoas. Ouh gar patrion ta Sparta!"
- The Lacedaimonian War Tune -
