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Hail Marcus, Sorry about the multiple post 3x must of hit the button several times.

So they do not make a difference to the national/racial/linguistic/etc. identity of the Athenians Marcus I agree with you.However prominent Athenians were known to have Thracian or Sythian Cocubines.Demostanes was a Sythian on his Mothers side Thucydides had Thracian ancestry.Of course this does not...

Hail lyngos,Alexander was MORE of a Hellene than Demosthenes himself, Perikles, Solwn, and many others with mothers from Thrace of even "etaires=prostitutes" from left and right. I do know Demosthenes was part Sythian I know Historian Thydicles had Thracian Ancestry. 25% of Athens was Fore...

Hail lyngos,Alexander was MORE of a Hellene than Demosthenes himself, Perikles, Solwn, and many others with mothers from Thrace of even "etaires=prostitutes" from left and right. I do know Demosthenes was part Sythian I know Historian Thydicles had Thracian Ancestry. 25% of Athens was Fore...

Hail lyngos,Alexander was MORE of a Hellene than Demosthenes himself, Perikles, Solwn, and many others with mothers from Thrace of even "etaires=prostitutes" from left and right. I do know Demosthenes was part Sythian I know Historian Thydicles had Thracian Ancestry. 25% of Athens was Fore...

Hail Efstathios, Hammond has the best interpitation that I heard so far.The 1st Greek speakers he associates with Mycenane spoke a crude Ionic dialect.Archeology does verify that they came from North Western Greece.He also states that they were small in numbers relive to the native pre Greek populai...

The Thracians, who also spoke greek, had the same religion as the Greeks, wrote in Greek (yet are not called "Greeks" by anyone) Thracians wrote in Greek but had distict names and gods some got absorbed into the Greek culture along the southern fringes.I have a difficult time with that tes...

Hi Kenny, Any ethno racial cultural group that beleives they are 100% pedigree English ,ancient Greek or modern, ect of course is delusional. I brought up the English example in reference to Hammond who compared Greek tribes(originating in Northern Greece near Olympus) conquering and assimulating pr...

This was bush's propaganda, and I believe Plutarch bought into some of Alexanders propaganda of divine origins Are you trying suggest Bush is NOT sincere about spreading the gospel of Democracy to the oppressed Iraqi's.? ( not to say that we do have some legitimate strategic geopolitical interest in...

The word "hellenization" may not be so accurate.You hellenize someone that is not a hellen Yes but Herodotus does state that the Athenians (Ionians) were infact Pelasgians(non Greek) before they passed into the Hellenic Family.Once they passed into the Hellenic family they ceased to be Pel...

As per Jim's comment on Alexander, as a human being Bob what I said was that ATG was a conqueror thus a great military genius as are all virtually all successful conquerors ATG,Gheghis,Ceasar,Napolean ect Mike said ATG was a conqueror 1st a military leader 2nd then a conqueror ect. kind of the same ...

Timenid himself, from the ones that conquered the Southern tribes and made Hellenes out of them. Hi Lyngos.Herodotus did infact say that the Dorians who were part of the Makedoni ethos(decendent from Helen) renamed Dorians when they entered the Peloponese.I assume this is what your refering to. I su...

I am using the site to state why Arrian is CONSIDERED most realiable.Since ATG conquest was a military campaign ARRIAN as a Roman general would have insights into the military aspects.The reason way ARRIAN is considered the most accurate is because his writing pertain most directly to the military c...

ARRIAN sources are considered most reliable because it is composed of more primary source based on more direct witness of his campaign via Ptolemy then the others you referenced.http://www.dragonrest.net/histories/alexander.html

Great site Suzanne.Like your assesment on the ancients view of war.