Thread: And so it goes
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Old 11-07-2004, 10:08 PM   #14 (permalink)
Mephisto2
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Originally Posted by Seaver
My favorite history professor put it this way. "Everything that has ever been written was written for a purpose."

Alexander needed to secure his base while he was at war in Persia. They had already revolted against him once, and with himself, and almost his entire army half the known world away he saw great danger. Of course he sold himself as Greek, as did his father to help quelle the pissed off Greeks. He used Greek soldiers in his army and used an ancient rivalry of the Greeks to conquer Persia (almost the entire known world at the time).

So to kill two birds with one stone they start spreading propoganda that they are infact Greek. Both keeps the home from revolting, and giving the Greeks reason to fight FOR Alexander rather than against him.
I think you misunderstand the meaning of the phrase "became Hellenized".

Of course they were not Greek initially; at least until the time of Philip and Alexander in anycase. But it is certainly the case that they adopted the Greek language, customs and considered themselves Greek later on.

The end result is the same.

If you are honestly stating that you don't believe Alexander the Great considered himself Greek, and that the Greek nation doesn't now consider him one of their cultural heros, then you are seriously misguided.

If you are stating, however, that historical authors wrote propaganda, then I've no argument against that. It's as true today as it was then. However, the facts speak for themselves.

I still don't understand what you are (were) saying is "bullshit".

Mr Mephisto
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