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In this period, sixty-five years before the founding of Rome, Carthage was established by the Tyrian Elissa, by some authors called Dido. About this time also Caranus, a man of royal race, eleventh in descent from Hercules, set out from Argos and seized the kingship of Macedonia. From him Alexander the Great was descended in the seventeenth generation, and could boast that, on his mothers side, he was descended from Achilles, and, on his fathers side, from Hercules."
Velleius Paterculus, Book I

"There was a PERSISTENT, WELL ATTESTED tradition in antiquity that told of a group of Greeks from Argos-descendants of Temenus, kinsman of Heracles-who came to Macedonia and established their rule over the Makedones, unifying them and providing a royal house. "

[E Borza (1990) In The Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon pg. 80.]

"... not much need to be said about the Greekness of ancient Macedonia: it is undeniable."
Ian Worthington, English historian and archaeologist:
("Philip II of Macedon", Yale University, 2008)

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", p.216, University Tutorial Press)

Ulrich Wilcken, German historian: "Macedonians were a Greek race and akin to the Dorians." ("Alexander the Great", p. 22)

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

ANCIENT MACEDONIANS WERE GREEKS OF THE DORIAN TRIBE LIKE THE SPARTANS. ATHENIANS WERE GREEKS OF THE IONIAN TRIBE. DORIANS AND IONIANS WERE MOST OF THE TIME RIVALS & THAT IS WHY MACEDONIANS AND SPARTANS HAD WARS AGAINST ATHENIANS!

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)

"While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and seeked for comprehension, someone with the appearance of a man stood in front of me. Then I heard a human voice from the Oulai river saying Gabriel make him understand the vision. Gabriel came next to me. I was scared and I fell down facing the soil. He told me Understand human, the vision refers to the end of times. While he was speaking, i was sleeping deeply with my face on the soil. He touched me and made me stand up. He said I will tell you what will happen in the end, in a specific time, when GODs wrath ceases. The Ram you saw with the two horns are the kings of Medians and Persians. The Goat is the kingdom of GREEKS and the horn between the eyes is the first king (Alexander)."
(Daniel chapter 8 verses 15-27)

"And when he [Alexander] went up into the temple, he offered sacrifice to God, according to the high priests direction, and magnificently treated both the high priest and the priests. And when the Book of Daniel was showed him wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended."
[Josephus Antiquities of the Jews 11.329]

"On this occasion, he [Alexander] made a very long speech to the Thessalians and the other Greeks, and when he saw that they encouraged him with shouts to lead them against the Barbarians, he shifted his lance into his left hand, and with his right appealed to the gods, as Callisthenes tells us, praying them, if he was really sprung from Zeus, to defend and strengthen the Greeks."
[Plutarch. Alexander (ed. Bernadotte Perrin) XXXIII]

ALEXANDROS m Ancient Greek (ALEXANDER Latinized)
From the Greek name Alexandros, which meant defending men from Greek alexein to defend, protect, help and aner man (genitive andros). Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, is the most famous bearer of this name. In the 4th century BC he built a huge empire out of Greece, Egypt, Persia, and parts of India. The name was borne by five kings of Macedonia.

PHILIPPOS m Ancient Greek (PHILIP Latinized)
From the Greek name Philippos which means friend of horses, composed of the elements philos friend and hippos horse. The name was borne by five kings of Macedonia, including Philip II the father of Alexander the Great.


The Macedonian royal house was called "Argeads" or "Temenidae". According to the tradition, the founder of the royal house Perdiccas - even if the name of the founder differs in reference with the ancient source used - along with his brothers, the "Temenidae" came to the place called Macedonia from the Greek city of Argos (southern Greece). These Temenidae were descendants of Heracles, through Temenus, thus they were called also 'Heracleids'.
Since the time of Alexander I, Macedonian kings participated in Olympic games, which as we all know only Greeks could take part. The Argive origin of the Macedonian royal house was well-attested and widely believed both from Macedonians, as well as the rest of Greeks.
"The country by the sea which is now called Macedonia... Alexander, the father of Perdiccas, and his forefathers, who were originally Temenidae from Argos" Thucydides 99,3 (Loeb, C F Smith)

"It is your privilege, as one who has been blessed with untrammeled freedom, to consider all Hellas your fatherland, as did the founder of your race". Isocrates, To Philip, 127 (Loeb, G. Norlin)

"Argos is the land of your fathers". Isocrates, To Philip, XII, 32 (Loeb, G. Norlin)

Alexander's letter to Persian king Darius in response to a truce plea:

[...Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas 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..."
[Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander II, 14, 4 (Loeb, P. A. Brunt)]




"Had I not greatly at heart the common welfare of Greece, I should not have come to tell you; but I (Alexander I) am myself a Greek by descent, and I would not willingly see Greece exchange freedom for slavery" [Herodotus Book IX ,45,(Kalliopi)]


"Alexanders ancestry went back to Heracles on his fathers side, while through his mother he was related to the Aeacids."
[Diodorus Siculus 17.1.5]

"As for Alexanders family, it is firmly established that he was descended from Heracles through Caranus on his fathers side and from Aeacus through Neoptolemus on his mothers. The story goes that Philip was initiated into the mysteries at Samothrace along with Olympian. She was an orphan and he was still a very young man; he fell in love with her, and on the spur of the moment became betrothed to her after gaining the blessing of her brother Anybbas."
[Plutarch, Alexander 2.1-2]

"Alexander called a meeting of his generals the next day. He told them that no city was more hateful to the Greeks than Persepolis, the capital of the old kings of Persia, the city from which troops without number had poured forth, from which first Darius and then Xerxes had waged an unholy war on Europe. To appease the spirits of their forefathers they should wipe it out, he said."
(Quintus Curtius Rufus 5.6.1)

"From here he now moved into Media, where he was met by fresh reinforcement from Cilicia: 5,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry, both under the command of the Athenian Plato. His forces thus augmented. Alexander determined to pursue Darius"
(Quintus Curtius Rufus 5. 7. )

"and he [alexander] demonstrated the strength of his contempt for the barbarians by celebrating games in honour of Aesclepius and Athena."
(Curtius Rufus 3, 7, 3)

"Now that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, as they themselves say, I myself chance to know" [Herodotus V, 22, 1 (Loeb, A.D. Godley)]

"But Alexander proving himself to be an Argive, he was judged to be a Greek; so he contended in the furlong race and ran a dead heat for the first place". [Herodotus V, 22, 2 (Loeb, A. D. Godley)]

"How highly should we honour the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?" [The Histories of Polybius, IX, 35, 2 (Loeb, W.R. Paton)]

"No king of the Hellenes had ever conquered Egypt with the exception only of Alexander, and that he did without war"
[Callisthenes of Olynthus 2.4.7-8; Oration of Demosthenes]