Alexander the Great (BBC Documentary) 1 - Greek Macedonians

Alexander the Great of ancient Macedonia, the man that spread the ancient Greek civilization, culture and language in entire the known ancient world

BBC Documentary, Michael Wood in the footsteps of Alexander the Great
Ancient Greek History

Alexander addressing at his troops:

"We can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage FOR AS GREEKS we should not be slaves to barbarians"
[Ancient historian, Callisthenes of Olynthus 1.15]

"WE SHALL FIGHT FOR GREECE, and OUR HEARTS WILL ALWAYS BE IN IT"
[Ancient historian, Arrian of Nicomedia, Anabasis Alexandri]

The historians and ancient scripts told about
Alexander Philip Ptolemy Hephaestion the Macedonians
Plato Socrates Pericles Solon Thucydides the Athenians
Leonidas Lycurgus Lysander Menelaus the Spartans
Hercules Plutarch Pindar Pelopidas Epaminondas the Boeotians
Agamemnon Iphigeneia the Mycenaean's
Achilles Jason Patroclus the Thessalians
Hippocrates Asclepius Odysseus Homer Ajax Theseus Aristotle Pausanias Pythagoras Herodotus Xenophon Democritus Euclid Archimedes and many many others all were from different places of ancient Greece.
All together call their self's Hellenes(Greeks) but every one of them self-reported in additional with the place of their birth, they had the same ways visuals language ideology idols arts names architectures rituals customs traditions myths heroes civilization culture ideals beliefs and anything defines a nation nowadays
In order to be Athenian or Macedonian or Spartan or etc. you have the previous characteristics (you are Greek)

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[One7Meso]

@ChaosDynamics Macedonia was a state of ancient Greece, nowadays remains one of Greece’s regions and populated from Greek peoples; the last few years after the break-up of Yugoslavia a new country popped and tries to get a name that connect them with ancient roots.

Anyway, don't mix sugar and salt, the new Macedonia is a Slavic state that has nothing to do with ancient Macedonia, any more than New Guinea in Ocean Pacific related to Guinea in Africa.

[HedebyVik]

With your rationale, it's more likely like Mohicans that considered part of Native Americans and were influenced by America but were more Mohicans! Or like Prussians that considered part of German world, but aren't technically Germans!

I think that if we said that Alexander wasn’t from Greece but from Macedonia is like to say that Napoleon wasn't from France but from Corsica, or like to say that Elizabeth wasn’t from England but from York!

[Lhein33]

@sorim1967 The problem is not only about the name of the state, but also about the name of the people. If FYROM is named Macedonia, then the term "Macedonian" becomes a national name (something that has NEVER happened in the history of mankind). Then, every Macedonian that has ever lived will be "subsribed" in the list of this nation. You admit that Alexander was Greek (then, "Macedonian" was a local, not national, name). Don't you think it would be unfair for him and for the historical truth?

[Taliesin McKnight]

3:24 i would definitely tap that.

This is Taliesin McKnight. And I approve this message. ;D

[sorim1967]

Fact: Alexander was not a Slav, if anything he was in the periphery of Greece in a state that was Greek in many respects. Modern Fyrom (or Macedonia as it calls itself) has nothing to do with that.

Fact: the modern state of Greec enacted an economic blockade (and then retracted) because FYROM called itself Macedonia. That was unnaceptable. Just because FYROM has delusions of ancient ancenstry Greece was not justified. They should settle along a "northern/southern Macedonia" divide and grow up

[zecxixo]

I love this documentary

[kostasthess81]

The whole truth about the true history of Macedonia is in these 4 videos.

Macedonia is part of Greek history and has nothing to do with this small state that stole the name and history of Greece. Now you know what Macedonia = Greece and not FYROM

[ImaginedWriter]

Also the argument that Alexander fought Greeks therefore was not a Greek is a stupid argument, such an argument would then mean that both the Athenians and Spartans who fought each other in the Peloponnesian war where not Greeks.

The Slavic population of FYROM arrived a thousand years after the time of Alexander, they have no real links to the ancient Hellenes.

[ImaginedWriter]

This is attested by the court of Elean hellanodikai who determined the claim to be true, and permitted Alexander I of Macedon to participate in the Olympic Games; something which only Greeks were allowed to do. If the Macedonian's were some other non-Hellenic people then this would not have happened.

[ImaginedWriter]

Alexander the Great of Macedon was Greek, the rulers of Macedon where from the Argead dynasty. The Argead dynasty traces its lineage from the Southern Greek city state of Argos where it gets its name from. Alexander's mother was Greek, he spoke a Greek dialect, learned of Hellenistic culture and was a promoter of it till his dying day.

[Sissy sim]

I just want to mention some things..

1-slavs which from fyrom state people are descended appeared much later than alexander in global history

2-alexander had a greek name,believed in the greek gods was talking GREEK language

3-when alexander defeaded the thebes in the civil war he named himself king of all GREECE

4-Alexander always named his campaign as a greek vs persia campaign

5-in fyrom they talk slavic not greek as alexander did

Anyone who does not see the facts is a victim of a propaganda

[NickFromFulham]

To all the FYROM fools - why would a SLAV spread Hellenic culture, Hellenic thought and the Greek language thoughout the known world? Why would a SLAV build temples to the Greek gods?

The answer is a simple one - Alexander the Great was a Hellene, a Greek, as he said so himself more than once.

In almost two decades FYROM has been unable to provide the world with a single piece of archaeological or historical evidence that links the SLAVS and the ancient Macedonian.

You can't prove a lie.