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Alexander the Great by Plutarch

Alexander was born the sixth of Hecatombaeon, which month the Macedonians call Lous, the same day that the temple of…

November 4, 2018

Modern Sources

Neither Greeks nor Macedonians considered the Macedonians to be Greeks.

November 8, 2018

Ancient Sources

Moreover, the insistence that Alexander is a Greek, and descendant from Greeks, rubs against the spirit of Herodotus 7.130, who…

November 8, 2018

Demosthenes Greek Orator

"... not only no Greek, nor related to the Greeks, but not even a barbarian from any place that can…

November 3, 2018

Livy Roman Historian

That whenever the priests of the people offered prayer on behalf of the Athenian people and their allies, their armies…

November 3, 2018

Polybius The Rise of the Roman Empire

Philip should withdraw from the whole of Greece," Flamininus, the Roman general, clearly separates Macedonia from Greece, and demands from…

November 3, 2018

Quintus Curtius Rufus The History of Alexander

The truth is that they hated the Macedonians more for conquering Greece, then they did the Persians.

November 3, 2018

Plutarch The Age of Alexander

Alexander was born on the sixth day of the month Hecatombaeon, which the Macedonians call Lous, the same day on…

November 3, 2018

Arrian The Campaigns of Alexander

The campaigns of Alexander the Great. Arrian, Greek historian.

February 18, 2019

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