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Alexander the Great, addressing the dead Greeks of the Battle of Chaeronea:
"Holy shadows of the dead, Im 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."
(Historiae Alexandri Magni, 6.3.11, by Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus)
Alexander the Great, king of Macedon, 356 BCE - 323 BCE:
"Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you..."
(Alexander's letter to Persian king Darius in response to a truce plea, as quoted in "Anabasis Alexandri" by Roman historian Arrian, Book II, 14, 4)
Alexander the Great, king of Macedon, 356 BCE - 323 BCE:
"Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant."
(Kallisthenes, Historia Alexandri Magni, 1.37.9-13)
Alexander the Great, king of Macedon, 356 BCE - 323 BCE:
"There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service — but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay — and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it."
(Addressing his troops prior to the Battle of Issus, as quoted in Anabasis Alexandri by Roman historian Arrian, Book II, 7)
LETS NOW SEE WHAT INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP SAY:
Francois Chamoux, French historian:
"Such a glorious ancestry was in the eyes of Greeks the hallmark of the Greek persona of the king of Macedon, who could, on the other hand, rely on fidelity of the people from which he had sprung. The Greek cities did not feel that they were allying with a barbarian, since for generations the Macedonian dynasty had been allowed, as Greeks, to take part in the Olympic Games."
("Hellenistic Civilization", Blackwell Publishing Professional, 2002, p.8, 9)
David George Hogarth, English archaeologist and scholar:
"From Alexander I, who rode to the Athenian pickets the night before Plataea and proclaimed himself to the generals their friend and a Greek, down to Amyntas, father of Philip, who joined forces with Lacedaemon in 382, the kings of Macedon bid for Greek support by being more Greek than the Greeks."
("Philip and Alexander of Macedon", pp.9-10)
Sarah B. Pomeroy, Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan , Jennifer Tolbert Roberts:
"For their part, the fifth-century Macedonian kings used their newfound wealth to pursue their twin goals of winning recognition for themselves as Greeks and Hellenizing the life of the royal court."
("Ancient Greece. A Political, Social, and Cultural History", Oxford University Press, USA, 1998)
Ulrich Wilcken, German historian:
"When we take into account the political conditions, religion and morals of the Macedonians, our conviction is strengthened that they were a Greek race and akin to the Dorians. Having stayed behind in the extreme north, they were unable to participate in the progressive civilization of the tribes which went further south."
("Alexander the Great", p. 22)
W. J. Woodhouse, Australian historian:
"This was Macedonia in the strict sense, the land where settled immigrants of Greek stock later to be called Macedonians."
("The tutorial history of Greece, to 323 B.C.: from the earliest times to the death of Demosthenes", p.216, University Tutorial Press)
Otto Hoffmann, German linguist:
"Whoever does not consider the Macedonians as Greeks must also conclude that by the 6th and 5th centuries BC the Macedonians had completely given up the original names of their nation - without any need to do so - and taken Greek names in order to demonstrate their admiration for Greek civilisation. I think it not worth the trouble to demolish such a notion; for any hypothesis of historical linguists which is put forward without taking into account the actual life of a people, is condemned as it were out of its own mouth."
("Die Makedonen, Ihre Sprache und Ihr Volkstum", Göttingen)
George Cawkwell, Emeritus Fellow, University College, Oxford:
"The Macedonians were Greeks."
("Philip of Macedon", Faber & Faber, London, 1978, p. 22)
Ian Worthington, English historian and archaeologist:
"... not much need to be said about the Greekness of ancient Macedonia: it is undeniable."
("Philip II of Macedon", Yale University, 2008)
Also, have a look at the list of 345 international scholars that co-signed the letter sent to Barack Obama for the TRUTH ABOUT MACEDONIA, dismissing FYROM's claims by stating THE TRUTH:
MACEDONIA, THEREFORE GREECE!
MACEDONIAN, THEREFORE GREEK!
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