[HN Gopher] Greece Opens Restored Palace of Aigai, where Alexand...
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       Greece Opens Restored Palace of Aigai, where Alexander the Great
       was sworn king
        
       Author : geox
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2024-01-05 19:33 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | Frummy wrote:
       | I think it was really cool in greece that really worn ruins in
       | nature, you could just walk to and be mostly alone, felt
       | dreamlike, like how is it monday and I'm in a place like this.
        
       | cafard wrote:
       | The Greek embrace of Alexander the Great and Macedonia is
       | amusing, when one remembers how violently the Greeks of his day
       | resented him, and how barbarous some of them said the Macedonians
       | were.
        
         | epilys wrote:
         | That's some heavy historical revisionism right there. The self
         | proclaimed King of Greeks, with a Greek name, who spoke a Greek
         | dialect, believed in the Greek pantheon, and won 3 times in the
         | Olympic games (which were infamously for Greeks only!) was not
         | Greek?
         | 
         | Greece as an ethnic state is a modern concept, if you say "the
         | Greeks hated Philip" to refer to Athens and other city states
         | who were in conflict with Macedon, then you're using the Greek
         | label erroneously. The Greeks were not a single peoples but a
         | somewhat culturally, linguistically and religiously homogenous
         | group of clans and the states they formed through the years.
        
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