Recent content by Pericles

The negative statement suggesting at the end that Athens would have continued into the Classical Age even if Persians had won is extremely illogical and should be dismissed by any logical students of history. Salamis WAS the savior and herald of our Western Civilization.

Macedonian is an integral part of Greek consciousness and nationality. It joins ancient Greece through Hellenistic Greece, Byzantine Greece and to the Renaissance in the West to Byron and Modern Greek Independence. Actual ancient Macedonia is the territory of current Greek Macedonia. North...