What is of greater historical interest is the question of how Greeks and Macedonians were perceived by each other. We have now become accustomed to regarding Macedonians as “Northern Greeks” and, in extreme cases, to hearing Alexander’s conquest described as in essence Greek conquests. The former certainly became true, in Greek consciousness in the course of the Hellenistic age; the latter may be argued to be true ex post facto.

Major dates in the life of the Macedonian King, Alexander the Great.