So I had a history exam today and one of the questions was:
Which one of these is not Greek?
a) Athens
b) Democracy
c) Alexander the Great
d) Sparta
What does /his/ think of this question?
>>903462
Alex most likely.
Makedon was considered Barbaroi by Greeks
But Alex had a Greek Mum tho.
>>903462
Do you live in FYROM?
>>903463
"Barbaroi" also means "people I don't like" to Ancient Greeks. For example, the Spartans called the Athenians that during the Peloponnisian War
>>903469
The Macedonians despite being Greek-speakers and Hellenized people were too alien with their absolute monarchies, pastoralism, hilltribal ways, and feudalish behaviour
Closer to Thracians than collective Hellenes.
alexander of course, i dont get why people get butthurt when people say alexander wasnt greeks, probably some buttmad greek but those are about as far as modern italians and ancient rome
It's Alexander. Always hated these bullshit semantics questions.
Athens and Sparta are both obviously Greek, but both democracy and Alexander the Great are arguable.
If you look Alexander the Great up on Wikipedia, he is described as "A king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty, an ancient Greek royal house". The ancient Macedonians are likewise described as "an ancient Greek people". So you should have some leeway in arguing that they are Greek, but then again, strictly speaking they were ancient Macedon. Just don't argue that they were modern Macedonians.
Democracy, likewise, is a matter of definition. The word itself is Greek, and they did have some degree of rule by consensus, but they weren't modern democracies in any sense of the word, in that they still had slaves and only a very select minority of land-owning, wealthy and relatively old men could 'vote'.
>>903463
alexander had an epirus mom, also considered barbaroi