THE EARLY AGE OF GREECE VOL.I by W.Ridgeway 1901
MACEDONIA is GREECE and will always be GREECE- (if they are desperate to steal a name, Monkeydonkeys suits them just fine) ΚΑΤΩ Η ΣΥΓΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΔΟΤΩΝ!!! Strabo – “Geography” “There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the parts of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium; secondly, Greece; and thirdly, the islands that are close by. Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece, yet now, since I am following the nature and shape of the places geographically, I have decided to classify it apart from the rest of Greece and to join it with that part of Thrace which borders on it and extends as far as the mouth of the Euxine and the Propontis. Then, a little further on, Strabo mentions Cypsela and the Hebrus River, and also describes a sort of parallelogram in which the whole of Macedonia lies.” (Strab. 7.fragments.9) ΚΚΕ, ΚΝΕ, ΟΝΝΕΔ, ΑΓΟΡΑ,ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ,ΝΕΑ,ΦΩΝΗ,ΦΕΚ,ΝΟΜΟΣ,LIFO,MACEDONIA, ALEXANDER, GREECE,IKEA
MACEDONIA is GREECE and will always be GREECE- (if they are desperate to steal a name, Monkeydonkeys suits them just fine)
ΚΑΤΩ Η ΣΥΓΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΔΟΤΩΝ!!!
Strabo – “Geography”
“There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the parts of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium; secondly, Greece; and thirdly, the islands that are close by. Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece, yet now, since I am following the nature and shape of the places geographically, I have decided to classify it apart from the rest of Greece and to join it with that part of Thrace which borders on it and extends as far as the mouth of the Euxine and the Propontis. Then, a little further on, Strabo mentions Cypsela and the Hebrus River, and also describes a sort of parallelogram in which the whole of Macedonia lies.”
(Strab. 7.fragments.9)
ΚΚΕ, ΚΝΕ, ΟΝΝΕΔ, ΑΓΟΡΑ,ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ,ΝΕΑ,ΦΩΝΗ,ΦΕΚ,ΝΟΜΟΣ,LIFO,MACEDONIA, ALEXANDER, GREECE,IKEA
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<strong>THE</strong> HOMERIC <strong>AGE</strong>. 321<br />
stumbles over his own great clumsy shield and is<br />
immediately<br />
pinned to the earth <strong>by</strong> the spear of Hector. It would seem that<br />
Peiiphetes, one of the native Myceneans, and not an Achean,<br />
still woi'e the ancient shield of his race. In a short time we<br />
shall see that in Pelasgic Arcadia the old Mycenean armature<br />
remained in vogue until the second century B.C.<br />
Reich el holds that it was because the Homeric warriors used<br />
the great<br />
Mycenean shield, which was too heavy to be carried<br />
any distance with ease, that they used war chariots. But I<br />
shall presently show that the war chariot was largely used <strong>by</strong><br />
peoples of upper Europe who never employed any but round<br />
shields of no great diameter, and a very different reason for the<br />
employment of the war chariot will be offered.<br />
Nor need we wonder if some of the native Argives in the<br />
host led <strong>by</strong> the Acheatis should be equipped with their old<br />
national weapons, armour and shield. It takes some time for<br />
such changes to come about, and often a considerable period<br />
may elapse before all classes can afford to arm themselves with<br />
the newer and better panoply. In the late Chino-Japanese<br />
war, men armed with bows and arrows were serving in the<br />
Chinese army at the same time that others were furnished<br />
with the most modern form of magazine i-itles.<br />
The archaeologists have explained the epithet 6/ji(f)aX6eaaa<br />
<strong>by</strong> certain small discs found in the shaft-graves at Mycenae,<br />
and which are conjectui'ed to have been fastened along the<br />
rims of the sliields as ornaments '. 'I'his is in itself highly<br />
in)j)robal)le.<br />
For to the (Jreek i)inph(dus meant the navel<br />
literallv or metaphoi-ically, the centi'al<br />
itojiit of an object.<br />
of the earth. 80 to the<br />
Thus Delphi was the Omphalos<br />
RoniiUis iniihiliciis and niiibn (;oiiveyed the idea of a ival navel<br />
or central<br />
])oint of anything, though the Xv.vxn navel was<br />
extended in use l)v both (Jreeks and llomans.<br />
Moreovei-, at least, two ])assages of the /Had show that the<br />
shield liad a cential boss. In one- Ajax is I'epresented as<br />
having sliuck the shield of Hector on the vinphalos, which<br />
indicates that the poet regai'ded the shield as ha\ing<br />
l)ut one<br />
-<br />
Schuc-hliardi, M/). ,'it., ]i. -IM.<br />
XIII.<br />
\'Xl.<br />
322 <strong>THE</strong> HOMERIC <strong>AGE</strong>.<br />
omphalos, and that of" course in the centre. The other passage<br />
describes the shield of :<br />
Agamemnon "he took the richly-dight<br />
shield of his valour (TroXvSalBaKov dcnriha Oovpiv), that covereth<br />
all the body of a man {(ifMcfyi^poTijv), a fair shield, and round<br />
about it were ten circles of bronze and thereon were twenty<br />
white bosses (6fi(f>aX6
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