Alexander the Great (BBC Documentary) 4 - Greeks Macedonians
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Alexander the Great (BBC Documentary) 4 - Greeks Macedonians
Alexander the Great Macedonian spread the Hellenism to the entire world. Greeks are those who have Hellenic ways education language culture ideals heroes and beliefs is not racial criterion (this also said the ancient and today Greeks) All the naming (people places creatures etc) in ancient Macedonia they are Greek terms. Ensample ... Macedon is a Greek word it means (tall people)(makednos=tall, length) Alexander is a Greek compound term, it means (he who wards off other men, defender of men) word element (alex=to ward off, to defend) - (ander=the man) Bucephalus his horse, is a Greek compound term, it means "ox-head" Hephaestion the best friend of Alexander It means in Greek volcano--the fire (Hephaestio=volcano)-(Hephaestus=The god of fire) Ptolemy--Ptolemaios the Great Macedonian general derived from Greek (polemaios) meaning aggressive-warlike Alexander sent to Athens three hundred Persian panoplies to be set up to Athena in the acropolis, he ordered this inscription to be attached: "Alexander, son of Philip and the Greeks save the Lacedaimonians, set up these spoils from the barbarians dwelling in Asia" BBC Documentary, Michael Wood in the footsteps of Alexander the Great Ancient Greek History Alexander the Great was the most Hellenas-Greek than anybody born in the earth until now... Alexander the Great Macedon proves that he was Greek with his acts and reports. Alexandros: "For As Hellenes(Greeks) we should not be slaves to barbarians" Callisthenes of Olynthus 1.15.1-4 All the historians and ancient scripts told about Alexander Aristotle Philip Ptolemy Hephaestion the Macedonians Plato Socrates Pericles Solon Thucydides the Athenians Leonidas Lycurgus Lysander Menelaus the Spartans Hercules Plutarch Pindar Pelopidas Epaminondas the Boeotians Minoans Ariadne the Cretans Agamemnon Iphigeneia the Mycenaean's Achilles Jason Patroclus the Thessalians Hippocrates Asclepius Odysseus Homer Ajax Theseus Pausanias Pythagoras Herodotus Xenophon Democritus Euclid Archimedes and many-many others all were from different places of ancient Greece. All together call their self's Hellenes(Greeks) but every one of them self-reported in additional with the place of their birth, they had the same ways visuals language ideology idols arts names architectures rituals customs traditions myths heroes civilization culture ideals beliefs and anything defines a nation nowadays In order to be Athenian or Macedonian or Spartan or etc. you have all the previous characteristics (you are Greek) Alexander Macedonians Greece Europe Asia Africans Aegean East Egyptians Indians Pakistan Iraq Iran Arabia Babylon Persepolis Alexandria Library Lebanon Syria Israel Hebrew Palestine Siwa Nile Mediterranean Romans Armenians Bactrians Scythians Tehran Kurdistan Afghanistan Tajikistan Uzbekistan Chaeronea Gaugamela Issus Tyre educations Myths religions Legends Battles deaths tombs mounted horses rides bestrides elephants javelins legions army armies music honors glory prestige Conquests campaigns Expeditions Covers Tourneys Tilts Soldiers Warriors Weapons Phalanxes ancestry Spear descents Hellenism Empires Generations genealogy flags lineages Kingdoms Omen charges Oracles Origins family stocks nations Symbols vestiges enemies enemy races hostiles rush Bloods Royals Literatures Imperials Gordian knots Thebans Hellenistic years Hellenism Pella Vergina Stars Epirus Illyrians Macedon Thebes Ionians Doric Olympians Gods Zeus Amyntas Phillip Darius Bucephalus Iliad Troy Cleopatra Cyrus Xerxes Darius Roxanne Roxana Porus
YouTube | May 7, 2007
