I wasn't referring to modern Macedonia, nor what today's Greeks might think of it. In fact, the thought didn't cross my mind.
There is some evidence that the ancient Greeks of the Peloponnese did not think of ancient Macedonia as Greek, at least, not Greek like them. At most, they were regarded as backward, unsophisticated second cousins.
In B4 descendants of the Athenians indignantly claim that the Dorians weren't really Greek either!
In b4 the descendants of the Spartans, Corinthians, and Argives indignantly claim that Cleopatra is not Greek, but Macedonian.
Yes, Macedonian, like Alexander the Great.
This is a coin, on it, in Greek which I can read today exactly as I would today's Greek it says: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ
https://coinweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/egypt_pol.jpg
King of Ptolemy
All these coins actually have Greek on them: https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ngc-ancients-bronze-coinage-of-the-greek-kings-of-ptolemaic-egypt/
All Ptolemaic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saints_Cyril_and_Methodius These brothers created the Slavic alphabet in order to translate the Bible, 1200 years after Μέγας Αλέξανδρος was born
Η Μακεδονία είναι Ελληνική
What does Alexander mean in "Macedonian" - a language that didn't have an alphabet before a couple of Greeks made one for them?
Αλέξανδρος is he who pushes back men, a warrior
For that matter what does his father's name mean in that language?
Φίλιππος is friend of horses
Modern Macedonia has nothing to do with Ancient Macedonia beyond the fact that they are occupying part of its land
I wasn't referring to modern Macedonia, nor what today's Greeks might think of it. In fact, the thought didn't cross my mind.
There is some evidence that the ancient Greeks of the Peloponnese did not think of ancient Macedonia as Greek, at least, not Greek like them. At most, they were regarded as backward, unsophisticated second cousins.
In B4 descendants of the Athenians indignantly claim that the Dorians weren't really Greek either!
got it. well that happened with all of them, even if Alexander studied under Aristotle and Phillip conquered them all