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Virtual Macedonia Bookstore - The Macedonian State: The Origins, Institutions, and History
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 938.1
EAN: 9780198148838
ISBN: 0198148836
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 440
Publication Date: 1990-03-08
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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Summary: Roberto Maciel "RM"....Please that is such a close minded opinion.
Comment: First of all how he is claiming that Macedonian aren't greek basically because Demosthenes says they are not is absurd. That was Demosthenes "job" to say things like that for PROPAGANDA. (kind of like how there was WMD in IRAQ) He was preaching to the Athenian people because Philip was a threat to the heart beat of Athens. Democracy!!!! Philip was a King, and no Athenian wanted to ruled by a Macedonian King. All of these Greek city states had there rise to power and this was Macedonia's turn to be the top dog. Any I validate my claims by a lot of empirical evidence such as Herodotus( who am I going to believe Herodotus or Demosthenes...you be the judge) He considers the Macedonians a Hellenic tribe left behind during the Dorian invasion: for during the reign of Deucalion, Phthiotis was the country in which the Hellenes dwelt, but under Dorus, the son of Hellen, they moved to the tract at the base of Ossa and Olympus, which is called Histiaeotis; forced to retire from that region by the Cadmeians, they settled, under the name of Macedonians, in the chain of Pindus. Hence they once more removed and came to Dryopis; and from Dryopis having entered the Peloponnese in this way, they became known as Dorians. (Histories, 1.53.1)
The language spoken by the Macedonian in antiquity was identified as Greek, and the language was either closely related to Greek, or perhaps even a dialect of Greek.
even Hammond in his book states that the language is derived from Greek! "What language did these `Macedones' speak? The name itself is Greek in root and in ethnic termination. It probably means `highlanders', and it is comparable to Greek tribal names such as `Orestai' and `Oreitai', mean?ing 'mountain-men'. A reputedly earlier variant, `Maketai', has the same root, which means `high', as in the Greek adjective makednos or the noun mekos... At the turn of the sixth century the Persians described the tribute-paying peoples of their province in Europe, and one of them was the `yauna takabara', which meant `Greeks wearing the hat'. There were Greeks in Greek city-states here and there in the province, but they were of various origins and not distinguished by a common hat. However, the Macedonians wore a dis?tinctive hat, the kausia. We conclude that the Persians believed the Macedonians to be speakers of Greek. Finally, in the latter part of the fifth century a Greek historian, Hellanicus, visited Macedonia and modi?fied Hesiod's genealogy by making Macedon not a cousin, but a son of Aeolus, thus bringing Macedon and his descendants firmly into the Aeolic branch of the Greek-speaking family. Hesiod, Persia, and Hellanicus had no motive for making a false statement about the language of the Macedonians, who were then an obscure and not a powerful people. Their independent testimonies should be accepted as conclusive."
In my life so far I have come to find out people come to their opinion before searching out what really is out there. They take hearsay evidence from Orators instead of Historians, and they decide that buddha is jesus christ...I mean they would if an orator told them that he was.
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Summary: Who (among the political gods) put them both to fight?
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I am very sympathetic to the fate of the serb macedonians, and the Albanian and Bulgarian macedonians as well, but their welfare should not rest in a name. Why do a state with barely over 2 million souls quarrel over a star in their flag and the an ancient name of a long gone state? What if somebody discovered a 7 b.c marble saying that the Dorian people colonized Macedonia? Would the macedonian serbs be forced to leave "formely Macedonia" ? The Greeks, obviously, speak Greek, but there was a way too long intermezzo before they could be proud of the conquests of the people from ancient Greece. Heritage, as I see cannot be traced with bloodlines and ridiculous "gene pool" comparison charts. Heritage is culture, and the transmission of it, as everyone can see in America and the rest of the new world, for that matter. As we should have learned from WWII, any claim of superiority, or territory, based solely on "whoever came here first", or "who's your daddy?", reasoning, has to be banned forever from our minds.
It is obvious that the serbs, bulgarians, albanians did not heir anything from ancient macedonians. I don't think that contemporary Greeks have, either, for the single reason that there was not an unbroken sucession from classic times to the present.
From everything that was said, I make my conclusion with Demosthenes, many times cited here and there. My point is that his attack on Phillip displays the same amount of bias and anger as many comments have here, for very simmilar reasons, as anyone can see. Of course, he was not a historian. Let's put everything back in context, starting with him.
"But if some slave or superstitious [...] had wasted and squandered what he had no right to, heavens! how much more monstrous and exasperating all would have called it! Yet they have no such qualms about Philip and his present conduct, though he is not only no Greek, nor related to the Greeks, but not even a barbarian from any place that can be named with honor, but a pestilent knave from Macedonia, whence it was never yet possible to buy a decent slave."
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Summary: Great Book!!
Comment: Highly recommended!!
This is the book that all pseudo-macedonians like to hate!
This book contains only facts and no fiction whatsoever.
Hammond is a respectible authority in Ancient History,
and a giant against amateurs like Borza,Gandento and
all other "sponsored" writers.
I read this almost 10 years ago and it is still relevent
after all this years.
I also recommend R.L.Fox biography of Alexander and
Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age from P.Green
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Summary: The Truth
Comment: A fallacious account of Macedonian history, most likely fueled by greek propaganda. Most literature on the history of Macedonia is manipulated by foreign parties with their own interests at hand. If you are interested in the history of Macedonia I encourage you to read materials from all sides, and speak to people. The truth is never easy to find. History can never be changed.
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Summary: Nicholas Hammond's 'The Macedonian State'
Comment: A truly information packed book on how ancient Macedon came to be, how it was run differently and similarly to the southern city states (polis) in southern Greece to the much contested origins of the ancient Macedonians ! Using factual/concrete evidence, and using the archeological finds in ancient Macedon (the majority being contained in what is still today part of Greece) over 5,000 peices worth with every single peice having been written using Greek letters and words.Indeed a must for anyone wanting to read upon the Greek state of ancient Macedon, that gave birth to great kings such as Phillip II and Alexander III and whom spread the Greek culture to areas unimagined !
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In 338 B.C. Philip II of Macedon established Macedonian rule over Greece. He was succeeded in 336 by his son Alexander the Great, whose conquests during the next twelve years reached as far as the Russian steppes, Afghanistan, and the Punjab, thus creating the Hellenistic world. Based on his earlier work, a first-ever comprehensive history of ancient Macedonia, Hammond now provides, in one volume, a history of the Macedonian State from early times to 167 B.C. Using recent epigraphic and archaeological discoveries, he offers new insight into the nature of the Macedonian State and its institutions both in Europe and in the Hellenistic kingdoms of Asia and Egypt.
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