Quotes that alexander the great said that he was greek?

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Quotes that alexander the great said that he was greek?

Answer 1

♥For As Hellenes (GREEKS) we should not be slaves to barbarians."

Callisthenes of Olynthus 1.15.1-4>

(Note that Callisthenes was an historian in the battlefields next to Megas Alexandros)

“Alexander came by the statue of his father and spoke loud:`Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians… and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for AS Hellenes WE should not be slaves to barbarians.”

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♥"And when the book of Daniel was showed to Megas Alexandros, Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended"

Flavious Josephus (11.8.5)

♥Herodotus V, 22, 1 (Loeb, A.D. Godley)

Speaking to Persians Quote:

Tell your king who sent you how his GREEK viceroy of Macedonia has received you hospitably…“

(Herodotus V, 20, 4)

♥http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8lR5AaKt...

Answer 2

"For I (Alexander I) myself am by ancient descent a Greek, and I would not willingly see Hellas change her freedom for slavery." (Herod. IX, 45, 2 [Loeb])

"Tell your king (Xerxes), who sent you, how his Greek viceroy (Alexander I) of Macedonia has received you hospitably." (Herod. V, 20, 4 [Loeb])

"Now, that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, as they themselves say, I myself chance to know." (Herod. V, 22, 1 [Loeb])

The country by the sea which is now called Macedonia... Alexander, the father of Perdiccas, and his forefathers, who were originally Temenidae from Argos"

(Thucydides 99,3 (Loeb, C F Smith)

"But Alexander (I), proving himself to be an Argive, was judged to be a Greek;

so he contended in the furlong race and ran a dead heat for first place."

(Herod. V, 22, 2)

The speech of Alexander I, when he was admitted to the Olympic games "Men of Athens...

Had I not greatly at heart the common welfare of Hellas I should not have come to tell you; but I am myself Hellene by descent, and I would not willingly see Hellas exchange freedom for slavery....

If you prosper in this war, forget not to do something for my freedom; consider the risk I have run, out of zeal for the Hellenic cause, to acquaint you with what Mardonius intends, and to save you from being surprised by the barbarians.

I am Alexander of Macedon."

(Herodotus, The Histories, 9.45)