Eugene N. Borza admits is pressured by Greek politics

Eugene N. Borza admits is pressured by Greek politics about linking modern Greeks to the ancients.

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[HaggisMacfee]

[Francalacci P, Morelli L, Underhill P A, Lillie A S,

Passarino G, Useli A, (2003)]

"A study of chromosomal variation showed that

modern Greeks and southern Italians have

a common prehistoric genetic history and

to a greater extent a historic one. The southern

Italians are largely Greek in origin."

[HaggisMacfee]

[Tian et al (2009)]

"The closest population to Greeks are

Italians and Tuscans,the low genetic

distance between Greeks and southern

Italians (-0.0001 fst, the lowest in the fst

table) suggests once again that southern

Italians are little more than latin speaking

Greeks."

[HaggisMacfee]

And it's already known that southern

Italians are actual descendants of ancient

Greeks since Southern Italy was

heavily colonised by ancient Greeks and was

known as Magna Graecia. Even today in

parts of Calabria they speak a Greek dialect

called Griko. Thus if modern Greeks are the same

people as southern Italians, it means modern

Greeks are also descendants of ancient

Greeks also.

[HaggisMacfee]

So, all Historians are agreed unanimously that

the ancient Macedonians were a ancient Greek

tribe and were Greek speaking. The issue is are

modern Greeks descendants of ancient Greeks

and therefore of ancient Macedonians.

All studies show that the modern Greeks are the

same people as Southern Italians.

[HaggisMacfee]

[Dr. Orvill Boyd Jenkins (Anthropologist / Linguist)]

"The significance of the term 'Macedonian'

has changed.

The modern country called 'Republic of macedonia'

[FYROM], is populated primarily by people

of Slavic origin. The original ancient region

of Macedonia - in Greece - was the land of

a Greek speaking ancient ethnic group

called Macedonians - the people of

Alexander the Great."

[HaggisMacfee]

In other words, Borza is saying it's not his

place to say whether todays Greeks are

descendants of ancient 'Hellenic Macedonians'.

That's a job for anthropologists, and Borza

is a Historian, he's NOT an anthropologist.

So its an issue in which he cannot comment on.

[HaggisMacfee]

@TheMakGreat

'Borza here is absolutely correct, he's a Historian,

it's NOT his job, neither is it his field of expertise,

to say whether modern Greeks are descendants

of, as he puts it, 'Hellenic Macedonians'. That is

a job for anthropologists and not a historian like

him. All Borza can say is that the ancient Macedonians

were of Greek [Hellenic] stock that spoke Proto-Greek.

Macedonians were a Greek [Hellenic] people

who spoke Proto-Greek.