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Worthington Quote

Can someone double check the Ian Worthington quote "Not much is to be said about the Greekness of Macedonians: it is undeniable". I can't for the life of me find that quote in his book Philip II. I can find "There is enough evidence and reasoned theory to conclude that the Macedonians were Greek" on p.219, but not the former. 2A02:6B67:7917:0:C8F1:C995:AF34:FB67 (talk) 17:23, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Really. They is no historical evidence of a country called Greece (Hellas or Ellada, whatever you want to call it) before 1821. There is also no historical evidence of such people called Greek before 1821. The koine language was simply called Koine and not Koine Greek as the so called Greeks of today call it. This page is just full of propaganda. You also fail to mention that your first Bavarian king Otto came to Athena where the majority of the people in Athens spoke Albanian (Arvanites ) 14.201.79.60 (talk) 05:07, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

I have to say Misplaced Pages is just full of propaganda articles like this one. An ethnic group that conquered Thrace, Epirus Archaia etc. ohhh they didn't conquer Greece because there was no such country. But you will respond with some crap like ancient city states of Ancient Greece. <— yet no Ancient Greece country existed lol. You don't make sense at all. 14.201.79.60 (talk) 05:09, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

"Greek stock", "racially Greek"

These phrases—in quotations from scholars, no less—jump out at me. Is that what this is really about? Srnec (talk) 01:39, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

@Srnec I do agree that the phrasing is strange, but I assume a lot of that how problematic this discourse is contemporarily anyway. Maybe some re-verifying is necessary, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if this language was used in the original source.

Maybe we should reword out of quotations and paraphrase, but I assume that would very easily fall into WP:OR territory. Uness232 (talk) 18:28, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

A matter of accuracy

I know there are frequent inaccuracies here and the effect of centuries of propaganda is inevitable but depite that it is reasonably sound. I know there was no nation of ancient Greece. What there was was an ancient-Greek-speaking network of poleis streching all across the Mediterranean. It was vastly larger than modern Greece. So, it wasn't the same at all. Different species of animal. Not a nation. The nation of course is relatively recent. The U. of Copenhagen did a 10-year flag study of the polis, which need to be brought in. So, I'm saying the ideology here is somewhat behind the study. Needs to be brought up to date. Second, overbriefness has resulted in certain inaccuracies. This great plain of lower Macedonia the article begins with didn't exist. There was no plain there. It was the Thermaic Gulf plus wetlands. The states were all squeezed between it and the mountains. I'm working on this under Emathia. And finally, the article does not make clear that "Macedonian" meant different thing at different times. The original Macedonians were around Mt Olympus. So, there is more work here if anyone dares to risk it. Oh, one thing more. Beekes is a good linguist I am sure but he tends to be something of a wild man in some of his etymologies, as when he discovers the source of all the Etruscans in the Mediterranean hiding in a section of Anatolia about the size of a county. "The slim men" indeed. Why don't we name them after their hair-do? Highlanders is much more likely.Botteville (talk)

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