First of all I want to apologize from my bad English grammar. As native Macedonian my mother language is Greek and not Slavic as some of the postmodernists professors claim arbitrarily.Enjoy the blog.
In an Open Letter to President Obama, 370 Professors ....
respectfully request to intervene to clean up some of the historical debris about Macedonian History left in southeast Europe by the Bush administration.
First of all I want to apologize from my bad English grammar. As native Macedonian my mother language is Greek and not Slavic as some of the postmodernists professors claim arbitrarily.
Our common international society cannot survive when history is ignored, much less when history is fabricated. FYROM, must to understand that it cannot build a national identity at the expense of historic truth.
What did others say about the Macedonians? Here there is a relative abundance of information from
ReplyDeleteArrian, Plutarch (Alexander, Eumenes), Diodorus 17-20, Justin, Curtius Rufus, and Nepos (Eumenes),
based upon Greek and Greek-derived Latin sources. It is clear that over a five-century span of writing in two
languages representing a variety of historiographical and philosophical positions the ancient writers regarded
the Greeks and Macedonians as two separate and distinct peoples whose relationship was marked by
considerable antipathy, if not outright hostility.
By Egene N. Borza
Anonymous, also and the others Greek city-states, had considerable antipathy, and not outright hostility, such as Athenians and Spartans.
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