MACEDONIA IS GREECE

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"The 38th book contains the completion of the disaster of the Hellenes. For though both the whole of Hellas and her several parts had often met with mischance, yet to none of her former defeats can we more fittingly apply, the name of disaster with all it signifies than to the events of my own time. In the time I am speaking of a comon misfortune befell the Peloponnesians, the Boiotians, the Phokians, the Euboians, the Lokrians, some of the cities on the Ionians Gulf, and finally the Macedonians.

[Polyvius 38.8]

"Such was the end of Philip He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to athrone won for himself the greatest empire AMONG the Hellenes, while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.

(Diodoros of Sicily 16.95.1-2)


Stephen G. Miller, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley:

"Allow me to end this exegesis by making a suggestion to resolve the question of the modern use of the name "Macedonia". Greece should annex Paionia (FYROM), that is what Philip II did in 359 B.C. And that would appear to be acceptable to the modern residents of that area (FYROM) since they claim to be Greek by appropriating the name Macedonia and its most famous man. Then the modern people of this new Greek province could work on learning to speak and read and write Greek, hopefully even as well as Alexander did."

(ARCHAEOLOGY magazine, January/February 2009 issue)

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