Were ancient Macedonians - Greek?

Were ancient Macedonians - Greek?

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some probably were

No their language was Not greek so They were barbaroi by definition

Maybe not Greek from their perspective, but probably from ours.
It was almost certainly closely related to Greek, and split off from a common ancestor with Doric after that ancestor had split off from Mainland Greek. It's part of the evidence for the Doric Invasion hypothesis: Doric-like Speakers in the North and Doric speakers in the South.

Yes

The Greeks spoke about them and treated them like barbarians. They may have been Hellenized Thracians or Illyrians or just the more tribal Greeks that didn't migrate during the Doric invasion.

A Macedonian king was allowed to compete in the olympics but only cause Greek traditions said his family descended from Greek Kings and Hercules.

Ancient greeks and macedonians were sort of like ancient jews and surrounding canaanite tribes, they were related and extremely similar, but not considered the same

this is reflected by greek mythology, where greeks are descendants of Hellen, the patriarch and founder of the greek(hellenic) people, macedonians are descendants of Makedon, who is the son of Hellens sister Thyia

i guess, the macedonians were not exactly greeks, but not barbarians either

though macedonians and greeks sort of became a single nation after alexanders conquests and hellenization of the ancient world, many peoples were hellenized including the macedonians themselves

Which ancient time period?

If we're just looking at Alexander the Great, then sure, he could speak Greek and had a Hellenic education. The royal family was considered Argive, which means he was a Hellene and allowed to compete in the Olympics.

His mother was apparently Illyrian/Molossian, so he was a mixed-race kid.

My source for the Olympics was Herodotus. A previous ruler from the same royal family was judged Greek by a court and allowed to compete in the Games.

Alexander was not blonde you nordicist retard. I fucking hate what historians did, what a bunch of insecure bitches.

>Barbaroi
>Hellene
"No"

But it was a moot point anyway. When Philip conquered Greece and Alexander did what he did, the Hellenics were thrilled to extend greekiness to the Macedonian Aristocracy at least.

The Greek biographer Plutarch (ca. 45–120 AD) who described Alexander as blond and blue-eyed :

>"Alexander had light skin, blond hair, and melting blue eyes. A sweet natural fragrance came from his body, so strong that it perfumed his clothes."
This was somehow corroborated by the Greek historian Lucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon' (ca. 86 - 160), who described Alexander as:
>"The strong, handsome commander with one eye dark as the night and one blue as the sky".

>A sweet natural fragrance came from his body, so strong that it perfumed his clothes

I assume this is historically accurate as well, like the greek faggot wasn't idolizing him

>a general/soldier
>thousands of years ago (always out in the sun)
>light skinned
what

how do you know?

What a shitty image, the joke of the original is that the nigger's skull shape is so different from the Egyptian's that it is laughable for her to think that the Pharaoh is actually her ancestor

Plutarch was writing literally centuries after the fact
The only contemporaneous account is much more ambiguous

Why would a Greek faggot, idolizing a fellow Greek, give him non-greek features?

Ambiguous indeed.

It literally is

The people were not, the royal family were Hellenes, not Greeks though.

No.

The elite were Hellenized, and might have been able to trace some ancestry back to Greece, but they still identified themselves as Macedonian, and would have balked at being called Greek.

Alexander was famous amongst his peers for having a Lion's mane.

lion's manes can be a variety of colors

Better question, were the mycanaens Greek?

A better discussion would be; there are virtually no Documentaries or Films about the Peloponnesian War, this as Americans like to project themselves as Athenians, and we all know the Athenians lost the war, while exposing democracy as the most retarded system ever.

tfw

They occupied a weird middle ground between Greeks and barbarians. They spoke a language that was similar to Greek, but it had obvious differences. They worshiped the Greek gods. They participated in the Greek Olympics, but only after asking to join.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Macedonian_language

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