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Danboy535 1 month ago
Term barbarian Alexander used for Persians:
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic 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.
- As quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes,1.15.1-4
DocumentaryMacedonia 2 months ago
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Ancient Greeks stereotyped and called all non-Greeks barbarians.These included the Persians, Thracians, Illyrians, Macedonians, etc. The modern Greeks however,claims that Philip was Greek, and that Demosthenes called him "not only no Greek, nor related to the Greeks" and "barbarian",it is very clear from Demosthenes’s words that he regards the Macedonians and their king Philip II as non-Greeks. This modern Greek position is easily debunked, however, when we consider the following two points:
Macedonia1ful 2 months ago
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a) If the Macedonians were Greeks but still called barbarians and are related to the Greeks, why is there no other Greek tribe called barbarians ? Yet no Spartan, Athenian, Theban, Epirote, was ever called non-Greek or barbarian during any of these political and war conflicts! Not ONCE!
Macedonia1ful 2 months ago
b) ancient Greeks also called the Persians barbarians. Are we suppose to say now, based on the modern Greek "logic", that the Persians were also a Greek tribe ?
Ancient Greeks called all non-Greeks barbarians, and the modern Greek argument can simply not be true, and is quite frankly ridiculous. It does however, prove that modern Greek writers would go to make the Macedonians forcefully Greek, steel the Macedonian history, and even rewrite the feelings of thier ancient Greek ancesters.
Macedonia1ful 2 months ago
@Macedonia1ful
thats right. The Macedonains slaughtered the Greeks in the Lamian war for instance. Clearly distinguishes the difference
QTMakGirl 2 months ago
Hi Freshmen History Class watching this. This is awkward.... meep
JogaBonitofootball 1 year ago