Dianatomia
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I am Albanian and i am curious to know what historical narrative we have developed in my country and how this has influenced on how we perceive Greeks. I am sure that you have an answer for this question.
I will not answer that specifically. All I can say is that the view of Albanians about Greece is highly selective at the very least. By no means are Albanians experts in Greek history.
It’s true that there is a rich literature in Greek language. Ancient Greek was the language of an great civilization, Greek was lingua franca also Greek was the language of the Orthodox Church. Having all this historical material available, the Greek scholars have had the opportunity to be among the best scholars in the world for certain historical periods. But it is the opposite, no one takes Greek scholars into consideration, no serious scholar in the world uses Paparigopulos as a reference for example, even Sathas has been accused of having invented "The Chronicles of Galaxidi". There are so many concrete denunciations with names and surnames made even by the Greeks. From your sources we know that in Greece there are structures specialized in falsifying history.
As I said, Greeks get most of the analysis about Greek history from Western historiographers. They are no exception to this. The difference is that they evaluate all the material which concerns them. Why would Albanians evaluate all the material about Greek history?
Also, as I said, Greeks have a Graeco-centric bias since they have acces to their extremely rich historical material. Perhaps at the expense of Arab, Persian, Spanish material etc. But we should not underestimate them in that regard since there are also many respected academics in the Greek diaspora.
For this reason and others, i think that even the case of this Lazaridis and this Stamatogonidis, they are not an the exception of the rule that exists in your country.
These are geneticists. They are not even historians. They are educated in elite universities and the colleagues who work on their projects are also from various countries. Their work only allows for little bias. Geneticists could easily be refuted and risk harming their reputation as scientists.
Besides, on a side note, their conclusions are not even that pro-Greek. Their work indicates that Mycenaeans are only the primary genetic source of modern Greeks. It indicates that Greeks absorbed newcomers in later era's. Most likely post-ancient times.