In this period, sixty-five years before the founding of Rome, Carthage was established by the Tyrian Elissa, by some authors called Dido. About this time also Caranus, a man of royal race, eleventh in descent from Hercules, set out from Argos and seized the kingship of Macedonia. From him Alexander the Great was descended in the seventeenth generation, and could boast that, on his mothers side, he was descended from Achilles, and, on his fathers side, from Hercules."
Velleius Paterculus, Book I
"There was a PERSISTENT, WELL ATTESTED tradition in antiquity that told of a group of Greeks from Argos-descendants of Temenus, kinsman of Heracles-who came to Macedonia and established their rule over the Makedones, unifying them and providing a royal house. "
[E Borza (1990) In The Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon pg. 80.]
"... not much need to be said about the Greekness of ancient Macedonia: it is undeniable."
Ian Worthington, English historian and archaeologist:
("Philip II of Macedon", Yale University, 2008)
W. J. Woodhouse, Australian historian: "This was Macedonia in the strict sense, the land where settled immigrants of Greek stock later to be called Macedonians." ("The tutorial history of Greece, to 323 B.C", p.216, University Tutorial Press)
Ulrich Wilcken, German historian: "Macedonians were a Greek race and akin to the Dorians." ("Alexander the Great", p. 22)
Francois Chamoux, French historian: "Such a glorious ancestry was in the eyes of Greeks the hallmark of the Greek persona of the king of Macedon, who could, on the other hand, rely on fidelity of the people from which he had sprung. The Greek cities did not feel that they were allying with a barbarian, since for generations the Macedonian dynasty had been allowed, as Greeks, to take part in the Olympic Games." ("Hellenistic Civilization", Blackwell Publishing Professional, 2002, p.8, 9
ANCIENT MACEDONIANS WERE GREEKS OF THE DORIAN TRIBE LIKE THE SPARTANS. ATHENIANS WERE GREEKS OF THE IONIAN TRIBE. DORIANS AND IONIANS WERE MOST OF THE TIME RIVALS & THAT IS WHY MACEDONIANS AND SPARTANS HAD WARS AGAINST ATHENIANS!
Alexander the Great, addressing the dead Greeks of the Battle of Chaeronea:
"Holy shadows of the dead, Im not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions."
(Historiae Alexandri Magni, 6.3.11, by Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus)
"While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and seeked for comprehension, someone with the appearance of a man stood in front of me. Then I heard a human voice from the Oulai river saying Gabriel make him understand the vision. Gabriel came next to me. I was scared and I fell down facing the soil. He told me Understand human, the vision refers to the end of times. While he was speaking, i was sleeping deeply with my face on the soil. He touched me and made me stand up. He said I will tell you what will happen in the end, in a specific time, when GODs wrath ceases. The Ram you saw with the two horns are the kings of Medians and Persians. The Goat is the kingdom of GREEKS and the horn between the eyes is the first king (Alexander)."
(Daniel chapter 8 verses 15-27)
"And when he [Alexander] went up into the temple, he offered sacrifice to God, according to the high priests direction, and magnificently treated both the high priest and the priests. And when the Book of Daniel was showed him wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended."
[Josephus Antiquities of the Jews 11.329]
"On this occasion, he [Alexander] made a very long speech to the Thessalians and the other Greeks, and when he saw that they encouraged him with shouts to lead them against the Barbarians, he shifted his lance into his left hand, and with his right appealed to the gods, as Callisthenes tells us, praying them, if he was really sprung from Zeus, to defend and strengthen the Greeks."
[Plutarch. Alexander (ed. Bernadotte Perrin) XXXIII]
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