Friday 29 October 2010

Macedonian Kings and Coins

Skopjan historians and politicians have had the audacity ever since 1944 - and more recently in the FYRO(M) school textbooks printed for 1992-93 - to claim that the ancient Macedonians, Alexander the Great, and the Prolemies were not Greeks!!! Such allegations which undermine the very foundations of contemporary civilization, are offensive not only to the Greek people, but to anyone with the most rudimentary knowledge of history, to any honest person cherishing truth. At this clip you are about to see some ancient Macedonian silver coins, all Hellenic (Greek) and not a single one from the "fake republic of Macedonia", Bulgaria, or Albania. Show me just one Macedonian inscription (not only at coins) which is not in Greek. (Before the Roman Period). Alexander the Great never missed a chance to verify his pride for his Greek ancestry. • His parents had Greek origins (King Philip II and Olympias) • Considered himself as a Greek. • He spoke Greek. • He grew up and he was educated from famous Greek teachers like Aristotle • He worshipped the same gods like the rest of Greeks. • He undertook and accomplice to a military campaign based on the long-term hostility between Greeks and Persians, as leader of the Greeks. • As a child his idols where the Greeks Achilles and Hercules. • His name has a meaning in Greek, and ONLY in Greek, as most of ancient Greek names. • His parents (Philippos and Olympias), his half-sister and King Cassander's wife (Thessaloniki), even his horse ...