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Words of Phillip V of Macedon, as recorded by Polybius (18.5)

July 14 2008 at 1:43 AM
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Polyvios wrote: "What is this Greece which you demand that I should evacuate, and how do you define Greece? Certainly most of the Aetolians themselves are not Greeks!"

Despite the fact that that passage proves nothing, one may say this about it.

1. Strabo answered to that question at 35 AD: "Macedonia is Greece"

2. So, the other Aetolians were Greeks. Those Greek Aetolians are what Livius means at http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Livy

3. In another passage Strabo says: "Formerly the territory they possessed was more extensive, although even now the barbarians possess a large part of the country, which, without dispute, is Greece. Macedonia is occupied by Thracians, as well as some parts of Thessaly; the country above Acarnania and Ætolia, by Thesproti, Cassopæi, Amphilochi, Molotti, and Athamanes, Epirotic tribes."
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Strab.+7.7.1


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