Alexander the Great (BBC Documentary) 2 - Greek Macedonians

[progonolatreia]

THE MACEDONIAN MONARCHY HAD RETEINED NUMERUS ARCHAIC AND HELLENISTIC OMIRIC TRAITS:

THE PRESTIGE OF THE TRIMPHUNT WARIOR

THE SUMBOLIC USE OF DIADEM

THE ROYAL ROBE AND THE SEAL RING

PERSONAL COMAND IN THE WAR

A GROUP OF PRIVILEGED MAN OF ARISTOCRATIC COMPANIONS(HETAIROI,PHILOI) IN BATTLE,AT DINNER,TO GIVE ADVICE AT ROYAL COUNCIL

THE RIGTH TO DIDTIBUTE BOOTY,CAL TO CONTROL LOOTING

THE DUTY OF WHAT HOMER CALLED "THE SHEPHERD OF THE PEOPLE" HANDING OUT GIFTS,AND CHARITABLE PATRONAGE

[MsMewmew16]

39 people never read history...and have low IQ

[MikeSV1989]

Alexander the Greatest!

[FEMP1971]

me gustaria ver este documental en español, o subtitulado es buenisimo saludos

[KevinVancouver2]

Greece brought us Civilization!

[WinkyMaeve]

@KevinVancouver2 it was not just them, Romans, Persians, Assyrians, Babylonians, all contributed just as much

[trousis]

where are your propaganda now scopians?????

[POTIS1]

''NEAR IN THE EAST

IN A PART OF ANCIENT GREECE

IN AN ANCIENT LAND

CALLED MACEDONIA...''

IRON MAIDEN 1986 SONG ''ALEXANDER THE GREAT.

ΚΑΛΗΝΥΧΤΑ ΣΑΣ....



[tuff253]

He was Greek. Who ever thinks he was from FYROM is the dumbest cock sucker going around.

[ivanovst1]

Macedonia is a fake country!

[byJessCh]

@ivanovst1 Yes because its a country populated by bulgarians, serbians and albanians and they want to be called "Macedonians".

[alexandros2010]

6)Why the ancient Macedonians believed that kings are descendants of the Greek hero Heracles, as the GREEKS Dorians??

7) Why the ancient Macedonian kings say it is Greeks, and come from the royal house of Argos in Peloponnese??

8) Why the ancient Macedonians were taking part in amfiktionia (conference) of Delphi, while allowing only GREEKS??

9) Why the Ancient Macedonians had the same holy symbols with the GREEKS??

10)why the Ancient Macedonians spoke Ancient Greek language ??

[alexandros2010]

I will ask the fyromians and others who supporting them

1)Why the ancient Macedonians had GREEK NAMES??

2)Why the ancient Macedonians believed in the God of the GREEKS??

3)Why the ancient Macedonians write with GREEK script??

4)Why the ancient Macedonians participated in the Olympic games while allowing only for the GREEKS??

5)Why the Ancient Macedonians had the same customs with the ancient GREEKS??

[FailYougoRepublic]

34 people are yougoslavian

[jimpapa83]

If Alexander Did NOT proceed to INDIA but returned to ESTABLISH his EMPIRE BETTER ....gave his Troops the REST they deserved ....and studied his enemy a little bit more ...then we would PROBABLY live in a complete Different WORLD than the one we know today ....he died at 33 ...and his higher rank officers divided his empire in 4 pieces killing his ancestors.....TRAGIC ..

[maniijeh]

He keep saying revenge but revenge was only a excuse. It was his gelousy

[MattyTheMole]

These days Persians want to conquer the U.S.A.

[CommissarASSHOLE]

@MattyTheMole

No, not the Persians themselves--but rather only their dumb government.

[bulixus]

He is a great Leader 

[traxanasify]

there wasnt turkey at that times

[Kelly14UK]

Do youn have the whole thing? It changed my life when I first saw it 10 years ago? Sure it's longer.

[dekmektsis]

I'm going! I was born right outside of Vergina, and I am moving back:)

[Brainiz619Enigma]

and then,stupid slavs after yugoslavia covil's war,a "country" were most of the population are albanians and muslims,claim they are the real macedonians even tho they have nothing in common with ancient macedonia

[dicktp]

Great documentary.

Thank you

[vroulidia]

Is nice to see the truth being told

[chriswilma]

@fleurgi achilles says it all in the movie "Troy" 

[serzh123aaa]

@chriswilma Learn history outside of the movies, they aren't accurate.

[Wien1938]

People need heroes. We're so frightened of heroism that we reduce it to the equivalent of caring for the aged.

Alexander is a great hero and an inspiration to us all.

[fleurgi]

i love alexander. is Achilles really his ancestor?

[yoryekinn]

@fleurgi no

[hardrocker1998]

@fleurgi Achilles was myth

[1976gs]

@hardrocker1998 u are in deap sleap man...troy was found by sLEEMAN just until was found was a myth too...

[Aldawok12]

Alexander wasn't so superb, go look at Genghis Khan

[dicktp]

@Aldawok12 lol

[JPiiiX]

@Aldawok12 whats a good genghis khan documentary on youtube?? recommend me one.

[jimpapa83]

@Aldawok12 my friend i admire the big Khan ...but if you sit down and study all the details and differences between the 2 campaigns you will see WHY Alexander was so much greater ....

[Afgsusan1]

Im not Greek Im Afghan......and Im so honoured Alexander stepped foot in my country. I love anything about Alexander and the Greek culture, I compare Achilles to Alexander I love them both!!!

[hardrocker1998]

@Afgsusan1 lol ya alexander wasent the evil power there

now its the fucking states XD

[xKingofIrelandx]

@TheBaphomet777 agreed and the Ottoman decended shack living Albanians have no connection to the macedonians aswell

[bane39]

so that from his ancestors on both sides he inherited the physical and moral qualities of greatness"

Yes and the mental/ psychological qualities of madness and overbearing pride.

[TheBaphomet777]

Alexander's father was GREEK, Alexander's mother's name was OLYMPIAS, Alexander was born in Pellas, which is in GREECE. The Slav-Gypsy scum that dare to call themselves 'Macedonians' have NO connection with the ancient Macedonians or Alexander. 

[qaplatlhinganmaH]

watch google video:

Thomas McEvilley on 'The Shape of Ancient Thought'

check out youtube vid:

Burke Lecture: Buddhism in a Global Age of Technology

[shadlovesyou]

im not greek, im acutally persian but i LOVE greek culture! :)

[tiberium22]

He was in power only for 15 years!!!

[ash786ash]

Man I'm not Greek, but I do love Greece!

[bettyboop392]

@ash786ash Greece was the seed of western civilazation, so I agree.

[printezi]

@ash786ash thanks mate..greetings from greece.take care.

[e8blue]

siga min itan kai gay re..xaxa ta agglakia fandasiononte :P

[CASTRER]

ηφαιστίωνας?εραστές?αμα τους γ... κανα ταμταμ θα α πούμε...

[hellascorfu]

Alexander came by the statue of his father and spoke loud: `Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for AS GREEKS WE should not be slaves to barbarians.

Kallisthenes 1.15.1-4

MACEDONIAN THEREFORE GREEK!

[ararat123457]

And I'm not even Greek I am Armenian but well said!!!

[serzh123aaa]

@ararat123457 I'm armenian too, 100%

[stayboy1684]

i would like to know if anyone can help me out here, im lacking in knowledge of most of thess greek/macedonian facts. i wana know if the blood lines of the ancient greek macedonians still exist today? is there anyway of knowing?

[karabouzouklis]

speaking almost the same language mate FUCKIN ANCIENT GREEK AND MODERN GREEK the same thing as simple as that

[ithejuggernaut]

The Greeks, after having conquered Persia, and subsequently many Eastern nations, have planted their seeds in many a woman, and it is not unlikely that there might be a Greek amongst us.

[petdou2]

Modern scholars and scientists have supported the notion that there is a dominant racial connection to the ancient Greeks. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, and Alberto Piazza, have found evidence of a genetic connection between the ancient and modern Greeks.[23] Recent genetic analyses of Greek populations have provided strong evidence supporting the existence of overwhelmingly significant levels of continuity between ancient Greeks and modern Greeks

[petdou2]

The most obvious link between modern and ancient Greeks is the language, which has enjoyed a continuous and documented tradition from at least the 24th century BC to the present day, some 6000 years. There has been no break such as the one between Latin and the modern Romance languages and the only language which enjoys comparable continuity of tradition is Chinese.

Source: Peoples Linguistic History

[rajkiran1982]

Sanskrit too! ... It is by far the oldest language... and is still thriving..

[aadilbrar]

petdou2

Sanskrit of India is much older than the Chinese.Sanskrit has a legacy of about more than 6000 years is one of the oldest dilect spoken by the aryan languages.Sanskrit is know as the mother of all the languages of this world.

[eurohome]

@petdou2

and Greek is the only languege that computers can learn.....because of the structure of this languege.....(simenon - simenomenon)

[Abhijeetonroll]

@eurohome its not greek but sanskrit

[exxxcccited]

@eurohome Thank you. This is what I have been saying.

[doganaktas]

@petdou2

Maikop inscriptions(3000 years old) can be understood by todays Abkhazians

Source : Turchaninov, cited in Khoshtaria-Brosse 1996, 18.

Also we have Coptic which predates both.

ANd 6000 years is not only funny but stupid. History(starts with writing) is not that old. Especially Indo-European history.

[granskare]

this is a great video...now onto the next one!

[Arbitrary242]

The Greeks are a race just like the slavs, the japanese and the white caucasians. They are not Slavs, nor are they the same as the western Europeans or the Turks. Don't wrongly group the Macedonians - they are part of the Greek race, just like the Kazakhs, Ukrainians, Poles and Russians are Slavs.

[MakedonianWarrior]

Yes

Undoubtedly the peoples of ancient Macedonia just like the peoples of ancient Athens, Sparta, Epirus, Crete, Thebes, etc. were parts of the Greek race

The nowadays former YugoSlav republic (north of Greece) that the last 18 years mulishly claim the ancient Greek name Macedonia, have nothing to do with the ancient Macedonians, they are part of the Slavic race (their language, traditions, ways all are SLAVIC), even their land at ancient times called PAIONIA, Macedonia is IN Greece!

[karabouzouklis]

TRUE

[giorgio4511]

Macedonia = Greece

[asmodeus585]

I don't think that Russians, Czechs or Poles have anything to do with it, and they are also Slavs. Anyway, I would also prefer to see this country (FYROM) with another name. They don't deserve to call themselves Macedonians. But, this world is strange and that's all I've got to say. ;)

[audy1971]

please read "indo greek" in wikipedia to see who were the macedonian  in india of Alexander The Great

support the historical trouth , Macedonian were Greek not Slavic

[panas1950]

Ifestion was not ALEXANDER S lover!!!What the fuck is he saying?Is he gay or something?

[asmodeus585]

And how can you know it? Did you observe Alexanders bad all the time. Alexander was PROBABLY bisexual, what was quite normal in his times. We cannot rewrite the history whether we like it or not. Anyway does it matter? Sexual orientation is a modern western idea, and we discuss if Leonardo da Vinci was a gay or sth. Imho it's very stupid. You should look at a man's achievements and personality, no what he does in his own bed...

[redmine7]

εστιν ουν ελλασ και η μακεδονια..no need for further explanations..greece 4000 years history

[liokiko1992]

@redmine7 ante kai si to grapses.ante kai go to katalava....ta skopianotouvla tha to katalavoun???

[tepsaj]

It wasn't uncommon for figures in ancient history to claim lineage from heroes in order to gain prestige.

[hrksilgfofhgut]

Its unbeleivable that the skopyans still think that Alexander was not Ellinas. They are so ignorant because they have NO history of their own. MACEDONIA is GREEK. Telia kai pavla.

[Hekatos89]

Don´t care about them. Their leaders use

this theory to strenthen the collective

psychology of this new country.

One of the greatest greek heroes!

[hrksilgfofhgut]

I dont care about them as well, but with the USA sticking their nose, it might get dangerous as far as their agenda is concerned and thats what worries me. The misinformation the USA is spreading.

[asmodeus585]

Ancient Macedonia was 'greek'. Modern Macedonia is slavic.

[MakedonianWarrior]

Macedonia was and stay Greek! The most of the nowadays-northern Greece called Macedonia(region) as the most of the southern called Peloponnese(region)!

If you didnt know, 95% of the ancient Macedonian land is in Greeces territories!

Of course the 'Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia' is SLAVIC, so they have nothing to do with the ancient Greek name that they mulishly claim! Even and geographically, at ancient times, called PAIONIA, NOT MACEDONIA!

[infex0]

not at all my friend.

Makedonia will always refer to greeks!!

[georgeosgr]

FYROM ( A Nation based on lies, fake history, rich propaganda and unbelievable ignorance)

Macedonia is ONE and HELLENIC !!! see Britannica online Dorians.Spartans and Macedonians are Dorians originally from north Greece, masters of iron weapons easily dominated bronze age south Greece and the Aegean islands.

[AgnostosAnonymos]

And all of his acts opened the way for our mighty, powerfull western civilisation!

[PaokiforLife]

PEOPLE OF SKOPJE YOU WANT OUR MAKEDONIA...so come an get it.MOLON LAVE(Like Leonidas said)...MAKEDONIA IS GREEK.

[petropoulioti]

Euge Alexandre !

[HellenicMagic]

Amazing document! A real must! I will forward -if you don't mind- all the episodes to some friends of mine. Congrats and 5 stars!

[OmegaAlfaDelta]

Why are we ashamed and flee from the truth that whole positive Macedonian revolutionary tradition comes exactly from exarchist part of Macedonian people. We shall not say a new truth if we mention the fact that everyone, Gotse Delchev, Dame Gruev, Gjorche Petrov, Pere Toshev - must I list and count all of them - were teachers of the Bulgarian Exarchate in Macedonia."

Georgievski in his book "С лице към истината" (Facing the truth)

[OmegaAlfaDelta]

Eugene Borza, Historian, Professor, and Archeologist, whom the American Philological Association refers to as the "Macedonian specialist" wrote:

Modern Slavs, both Bulgarians and Macedonians, CANNOT establish a link with antiquity, as the Slavs entered the Balkans centuries after the demise of the ancient Macedonian kingdom. Only the most radical Slavic factions—mostly émigrés in the United States, Canada, and Australia—even attempt to establish a connection to antiquity.

[PrinceofMacedon]

This is my favorite program on Alexander. It's a shame they discontinued the DVD in the States.

[ayeaye77]

Nice take on the Greek story but unfortunately its soo terribly biased that I as a Macedonian, It disturbs me....

[dkouts7]

if your macedonian then why woudl a greek story disturb you. if you truly are macedonian you would be greek no doubt.

learn some history . you cant rewrite all of hostory in the last 15 years and with your dumb american friends with you.

[MakedonianWarrior]

I inform you that you watching the real story via the Michael Wood's BBC-documentary!

After the propagandas that your country teaches you (in order to usurper the Greek history and heritage as a way of existence) don't surprise me that the real story disturbs you.

[chrpetro]

The truth Hurts ayeaye77

[forzaitalia2]

Forza Alexander!!!!

[HISTstdt285]

Axelander is one of the greatest generals to ever live.

[siakkasal]

MACEDONIA IS GREEK AND WILL ALWAYS BE

[MakedonianWarrior]

The Slavs are proud persons and they have rich and glorious history!

The point is...what happens to the peoples from the new country of FYROM-Skopje and they want to connect their Slavic country with the Greek History and the Greek heritage??? !!! ??? !!!

[maduav]

ill reply on "kostasthess"

GREECE-country?! hmmm unfamiliar!

sparta? ok

mikena? ok

athens? ok

exc exc

thats ur cities and capitals-no country!

history?4000 year,but not part as macedonians of 4300 years U GREEK FOOL! :@

MACEDONIANS are 300 years before u greeks macedonians came in north of todays greece,then greece didnt even existed! they were living in dreams not reality! 1914 u take -2014 we get it back! cheers from SKOPJE the captial city of MACEDONIA! next capital will be SOLUN 2014!

[MakedonianWarrior]

Your next capital will be SOLUN 2014???

Now you want and our capital Thessalonica(SOLUN) ???

Come to get our REAL Macedonia now!

What are you waiting for?

You live in your wetting dreams!

Maybe one day you will awaken...I hope not too late for you.

We are waiting for you........... I am impatient!!!

If you dare... "MOLON LAVE" (come and get it)

[gNsKyLoS]

foveros betovlakas o slavos ...

[maduav]

heheh greek fools! macedonians weren't hellens,they were phillehellen(friend of greeks) hehe greek fools,they think cause they got macedonian soil in 1914 by contract they have right on everything macedonian! u have nothing in common with! macedonians never spoke greek my friend! they divine just their culture! nothing more! and do u know where ur from? no!? ill tell u! EGYPT! GO THERE AND SUFFER GAY GREEK! names can mean anything! but he wasnt greek! thats more than sure! ;) cya EGYPTIANS!

[MakedonianWarrior]

1) The ancient Macedonia land is in Greece always was and always will be!

2) The ancient Macedonians were Greeks just like the Spartans or the Athenians

3) Your land was a foreigner land for the ancient Macedonians

4) Your land at ancient times called Paionia and NOT Macedonia

5) Always in time until now as Macedonians consider some of the Greeks

6) The Slavs like you never in history consider as Macedonians until now???!!! lol

[MakedonianWarrior]

7) You can't be Macedonians without even one connection with the ancient Macedonians!!!

8) We are Egyptians? lol

Even and the Egyptians have much more in common than you(Slavs) with the ancient Macedonians and their Hellenic/Greek empire.

9) Your Slavic tribes came from northern Europe at 700AD, approximately 2.000 years after the ancient Macedonia's existence and 1.000 whole years after Alexander the Great.

[nismo542]

maduav when do you turn 8 years old. ill bring the candles ahahah

your a lost cunt... i laugh at you because what you say has no fact in it what so ever.

wouldnt you be upset to know that i doubt greece is just gonna hand over a chunk of their land? they will probly go to war for it. and you will probly get sympathy from other countrys and they will try to help you. maybe when your country ends up war torn they will drop happy meals out of areoplains for you to eat. at lease u get maccaz

[kostasr36]

you are so redicilous.u dont even exist on the map.get used to it.

[FygeApoDoReVromokole]

Macedonians spoke Greek and their names were Greek.

Alexander is a Greek name. means defender of men.

Alexander's mother's name is OLYMPIAS.

she got it from the well-known mount Olympus of the GREEK Gods !!! olympic games you know? GREEK.

his father's name was Philippos! anyone who knows greek can get it means friend of Horses and it's a common Greek name.

Skopian language is identical to Bulgarian.

Skopians are related to Bulgars and slavs. not to Greeks or the Greek tribe Macedonians.

[FygeApoDoReVromokole]

Macedonian means Greek as Mohawk means indian american native.

Ancient Macedonian Language is Greek. it's a greek dialect actually.

as the ancient macedonian Pella Curse tablet proves!

check out the ---pella curse tablet---- in wikipedia.

if you know modern greek you can read it.

it's ANCIENT MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE= GREEK!

anyone who knows Greek can read ancient Greek Macedonian!!

as Alexander the Great and his greek name and Greek parents prove.

[kostasthess81]

1 MAC ZASTAVA + 1 POTATOES from ALBANIA +

1 COCA COLA from USA =

Former Yougoslavian Republick Of MACDONALS=

VARDARSKA BANOVINA

since:25/02/1992

made in : USA

[nikosgr123456]

Stop dreaming about Makedonia.Macedonia was,is and will always be Greek.Bye bye Scopians!

VARDASCA YOUR NAME!

[ellinas133]

,000 FYROMONKEYS have already obtained Bulgarian passports more than 60,000 have applied for it, amongst them FYROM's former PM LJUBCO GEORGIEVSKI. In order to obtain it they must sign a statement proving they are BULGARIANS BY ORIGIN. LJUBCO GEORGIEVSKI is now an ethnic Bulgarian follow his example and go back to your roots. Be proud of your Bulgarian origins. Sign the paper like LJUBCO GEORGIEVSKI there is still time.

[leiefilm]

alexander wept when he saw that there was no more world to conquer (bad guy from die hard)

[nishmat]

nice videos, thanks for uploading it.

[Yiannis2112]

Greex dont have to prove anythin to you. U have to. Where is the proof of u Vardaskans being Macedonians? Where r your ancient historians who distinguish Macedonians from Greex? Where r your archeological evidence that prove it? Define the connection btween your language and the ancient Macedonian one If u do please come forward and tell the world. So that i can go find my teachers and beat the livin shit out of them for lyin to me

[superh4]

hmm persian and greek culture became really close when alexander took over persia i think the greeks were the best in invading persia, others like arabs and mongols they massacred and burned almost evry city they burned all the temples and evrything but greeks were good the only burned persopolis :)

[godwratherror]

lol. true. but persepolis was rly burned bad u know. and alexander did some horrible things down there :p true story

[BillyVax]

Well,he was general and king of GREEK army.He invaded a land with 15 times the population of his own.And he certainly was not gay as some say...Every army that occupies a city is uncontrollable.So were sometimes the Greeks.They burned,they raped,they killed.But Alexander did not raped,nor burned as historians tell us...

[jeremyshambles]

thanks alot for your response regarding the death of Alexander's father , your insight helps my writing, cheers

[astrosP]

Sorry but we can not forget our history and not forget how you Slavs want to steal it. Do not say this to us. Say it to the people in FYROM

[astrosP]

He was murdered because He was a threat and because he was gaining a lot of power and some believe that Alexander's mother Olimpia wanted to be murdered so his son will take th throne

[Deformedius]

Hej,im a teacher in university of skopje and i can tell you all that ancient macedonia was greek.

We have nothing to do with it.

[gcbm1788]

teacher at a university? lol people been arguing bout that 4 hundreds of years m8. all bout perspective. No way to prove or disprove it, despite what historians say. history is never written by the defeated

[sillc85]

and you now the answer?come to see the statues which are in greek!what can i say more?

[deler230]

Why i have the feeling you are a fyromsky? Because as far as i know no one is arguing for years, only fyrom the last 15 years. There is no such a case, all the findings are Greek elements , there was not a distinct "Macedonian language". In order to claim such a thing bring proofs and prove the opposite. Till then all the coins, the tombs, the labels found have all Greek inscriptions, and prove Macedonians were Greek speaking and nothing else

[tassarxos]

20 millions are speaking greek in all over the world.Jewish language assyrian language aramayt language are very old languages with few speakers.Your argument has no base!

[deler230]

LOL! Since more people speak slavic languages than Greek, that means that Slavic languages are older, Slavic race is older than the Greek race, therefor Alexander was a Slav and spoke a slavic dialect!!Great point but you forgot something!English language is being spoken by billions of people worldwide, therefor Alexander was BRITISH!That's the truth!

[OrthodoxWarrior]

Alexander had said I AM GREEK...So simple

[LiveMusicShow]

If you asked Alexander About his identity , I wonder what he would have said and which language and which religion etc etc ?

Ean erotousate ton idhio to Alexanddro: apo pia fili itane? , ti glossa milouse? , pia thriskia ihe? , aryes ti tha eleye?

[sdjaar]

Could we say: that in the same country, each political group is a different nation? of course not.

Greece is 2 things: a geographical place, And a culture. It is like in politic the "left" and the "rigth". Same country, same culture, but different aims. Macedonian is only a term for a political group. And where ever you are born in a country you are citizen of this country. Born in New York or Washington, or Boston... US citizen, no?

[stone3139]

viva monkeydonia

alexander was fyromian

philip was vardaskan

aristotel was scotish

maradona was belgian

ganti was from norway

sokraths was mexican

[thadigr]

FOR GLORY OF GREECE..alexander was a greek man thank god..

[kggoh]

He much troops he led to go East and fight? If alot, how he solved the problem of transporting food. It has been records that been found in China, Qin (260 BC) they need 9 ppl to support one soldiers to fight 500 km away from the country. To estimate if he led 10k ppl, it will take 90k ppl to support his troop for 500 km away.

[erosensai]

Alexander the great was by far not gay,in Macedonia,if you were gay,you were put to death(same like the spartans)

[alexandrau2]

13Alexander I think that you´re right... Deep friendship was very normal in the ancient Greece, even Plato talk about it in the Dialogues... I think that people today do not understand the ancient greek world, but Aléxandros was a bigest warrior and a very sensitive man...

[toscallas]

Ἀλέξανδρος ὅτι τῷ γένει πρὸς πατρὸς μὲν ἦν Ἡρακλείδης ἀπὸ Καράνου, πρὸς δὲ μητρὸς Αἰακίδης ἀπὸ Νεοπτολέμου, τῶν πάνυ πεπιστευμένων ἐστί.

[getmewild]

maybe ur right... thnx..

[oskisthsas]

Ἀλέξανδρος ὅτι τῷ γένει πρὸς πατρὸς μὲν ἦν Ἡρακλείδης ἀπὸ Καράνου, πρὸς δὲ μητρὸς Αἰακίδης ἀπὸ Νεοπτολέμου, τῶν πάνυ πεπιστευμένων ἐστί.

[soccermaniac100]

Alexander was "Macedonian" but Macedon is still part of Greece. Same as someone saying their Sicilian. It's still part of Italy.

[shady9876]

this is the worst video ever.. tell me how the fuck do they know where exactly Alexander walked and that he threw his spear.. this is all bullshit the Greeks and the English are Both fucking retard because Alexander the great was Macedonian.

[ah1701]

Not sure what point you are trying to make here. Most children from primary school in UK and Greece and elsewhere are fully aware of the fact the Alexander was Macedonian. Point of the documentary was not to "time travel" it was merely to show the areas of Alexnder's conquest and to retrace the approximate route of the journey from 2300 year old records. Its not meant to be a ste-by-step recreation. Not sure how you could have missed this. Perhaps you should try watching the documentary.

[erixthonios]

"If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic,to traverse and civilize every continent,to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea,to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean,and to diseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation,I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power,but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes.

[erixthonios]

But as things are,forgive me Diogenes,that I imitate Herakles,and emulate Perseus,and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos,the divine author and progenitor of my family,and desire that victorius Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos... "

"On the Fortune of Alexander" by Plutarch, 332 a-b

[erixthonios]

"Holy shadows of the dead,I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people,to fight one another.I do not feel happy for this victory of mine.On the contrary,I would be glad,brothers,if I had all of you standing here next to me,since we are united by the same language,the same blood and the same visions."

Addressing the dead Hellenes of the Battle of Chaeronea,as quoted in Historiae Alexandri Magni by Quintus Curtius Rufus.

[erixthonios]

Is that enough or do you want more retard?Saying that Alexander wasn't Greek because he was Macedonian is as stupid as stating that Leonidas wasn't Greek because he was Spartan,and reveals your ignorance of the fact that the modern so called "Macedonians" are Slavs who arrived in the Balkans in 6th century AD and don't even live in territories of the ancient Macedon

[shady9876]

moron if they dont live in ancient Macedonia then why is it that there are riots and war in northern greece.

[erixthonios]

There are riots and war in Northern Greece?Are you on druggs man?Or are you more stupid than your username suggests?

Anyway,for your education learn that "Macedonia" occupies only 15% of the lands of the ancient Macedon and the rest are lands of ancient Paionia.The majority of Macedon(85%),including all three historical capitals of the kingdom(Edessa,Aigai,Pella) and its greatest city(Thessalonica) belong to Greece,as they should

[shady9876]

and have a vote just like KOSOVO is doing within SERBIA to declaire its indepence and if that happens northern greece will join The republic of Macedonia just how it was in 1912 befor the treaty of bucharest

[erixthonios]

OMG you are really stupid,indeed.The 2370452 people you mention do not self-identify as ethnic Macedonians,but as both Greeks and Macedonians,just like the people of my island(Euboia) self-identify as both Greeks and Euboians.The ethnic so called "Macedonians"(infact brainwashed Boulgarians) in Greece are so few that practically they are non-existent,and that's why their political party,Rainbow(in Greek Ουράνιο Τόξο) never gets more than 2500 votes.

[erixthonios]

And Greece is never going to recognize a macedonian minority,because Macedonians belonged and belong to the Greek nation.The so called ethnic "Macedonians" are ethnically Slavs,Boulgarians and have nothing to do with the original Macedonians.That's why they were never mentioned in any census or ethnologic book up to 1945.Cheers

[erixthonios]

As for the riots[infinite laughs],please tell me,how does Greece manage to keep them secret from the rest of the world?

[alexandros1821]

Do you plan on uploading the rest of the series ? Where Mr. Wood even visits the Kalash who still worship a variation of the ancient Olympian Greek gods !

[MathewThief]

Alexander the great was the best general & King!

[bumbar7]

There NOT WAR AGAINST ASIA that, thats a WAR FOR FOR THE GLORY OF ONE MAN (Alexander) NOTHING MORE, that`s a war for satisfaction.

[Evros58]

BRABW FILE  OREO.