The Birth of Classical Europe

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The Birth of Classical Europe
Pub. Date: February 2011 - ISBN 0670022470
By SIMON PRICE and PETER THONEMANN
barnesandnoble Reviewed by Jonathan Liu

http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Reviews-Essays/The-Birth-of-Classical-Europe/ba-p/4349

Consider, for instance, modern Greece's decade-long geo-linguistic campaign against international recognition of the Republic of Macedonia, because the Macedon of Alexander the Great was Hellene while today's imposters are Slavs. This is the richest irony; as Price and Thonemann recount elsewhere, Alexander's sixth-century forbearer needed a legal dispensation to compete in the Pan-Hellenic Olympics since no one was convinced the tribal and king-ruled Macedonians were Greek

[George S.]

Mach if the macedonians were greeks why were they excluded from the olympics.Also do people know the difference between hellene & phillhellene.