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Feb
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Linear B tablets pertain to the pre 1100 BC period, spanning a period from 15th to 12th century. (Chronology of Linear B Documents, Jan Driessen, A Companion to Linear B, 2008, p. 76). Most tablets were found in Knosos (Crete), Pylos (Peloponesos) although traces of its usage have been found on approaches to Egean coast and as far north as Aiani. During the first half of the 20th century, the opinion of Sir Arthur Evens dominated the opinion that Linear B was not a form of written Greek. Michael Ventris as early as 1930’s commenced his effort to decipher the tablets and eventually would indicate progress. Ventris was joined later by John Chadwick who unlike Ventris knew Greek. In 1953 they laid out their thinking with a paper entitled ‘Evidence for Greek dialect in the Mycenaen Archives’.
Dec
Author: Marko Attila Hoare
Uploaded: Monday, 25 October, 2010
Effective demolition of the main argument put forward by Greece to justify blocking Macedonia’s path to integration into NATO and the EU.
Dec
To get to the real Macedonians we need to start a little before the time of Alexander the Great. If we go too far back, say to the seventh century B.C., we find that Macedon was a tiny little piece of land that no one today would really be interested in. It was an area that could be covered on horseback in a day’s ride. Macedon at first included the area immediately east of Lake Kastoria and east and north of the Haliakmon River. Certainly there is little glory to claim from this period of Macedonian history. By the fifth century B.C. the kingdom had been extended eastward to what is now the Struma River, and a century later the Macedonian homeland was extended to include all of the territory West of the Nestos River.’ In the time of Philip II and his son, Alexander the Great, the Macedonian homeland was at its largest, and Macedonian power was at its peak. This seems the obvious era in which to begin our enquiry.
Nov
By: Zigur Belaxhiu
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Epirus and Epirots, who have had an impressive survival history, have not received adequate scholarly attention. Contemporary historians have treated the subject only superficially, most likely in an attempt not to enter into a controversy with the proponents of the Greek claim that Epirus and Epirots were Greek, a claim which is in total contradiction to the historical sources.
The Dorian extraction of Macedones and their relations with Thracians
By: Musë Gurabia
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Instead of introduction
The question whether the ancient Macedones were Greeks or not has triggered endless debates among scholarship since XIXth century onwards. The attempts to solve that puzzle were not always of scholar motivation: the involving of modern nationalism in historical domains has tangled the whole issue of Macedones. The question of the actual racial origins of the ancient Macedonians cannot be answered adequately on the basis of the language or of social and religious customs in historical times.
Nov
Lectures on Ancient History, Vol. III, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, London, 1852, pp. 134-39
Theopompus, too, had given a minute account of the Epirot tribes, and explained their geography, either in speaking of Philip’s first expedition into Epirus, or of his marriage with Olympias. All that Trogus says of Epirus was, no doubt, taken from Theopompus, as may be proved by certain quotations from Theopompus.
The name of Epirus is Απειρος, and that of its inhabitants Απειρωται; thus we read it on coins. We call all nations according to the κοινι, or according to the Attic form; but the ancients commonly called each nation according to its own dialect, and hence they, no doubt, commonly called the Epirots Απειρωται.
Nov
Lectures on ancient history Vol. I, Barthold Georg Niebuhr,London, 1852, pp. 199 – 206
Amid the countless number of opinions on Greece, we are strongly inclined to adhere to the view that, formerly, all Greece was called Pelasgia, and that it was inhabited by the people of the Pelasgians. It is well known that the name Hellas is of later origin; and its late origin and diffusion are explained in a singular manner, the insufficiency and unhistorical nature of which show themselves at once, though it is associated with great names. It is said that Hellas was a town ofThessaly, in Achaia Phthiotis, and that it received its name from the hero Hellen, who, together with his sons, was invited by the neighbouring Thessalians to rule over them, and decide disputes among them.
