Hellenism owes its renaissance to a non-Greek!

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 In the ongoing debate about whether the ancient Macedonians or Alexander the Great were Greeks, we would like to recall the Lexicon of Lost Peoples.

There we find a concrete reference to this question.


But first, let's look at a short bio about the author of the work.

About Harald Haarmann

Harald Haarmann (born April 16, 1946 in Braunschweig) is a German linguist, cultural scientist and author.

He studied general linguistics, various individual philological disciplines and prehistory at the universities of Hamburg, Bonn, Coimbra and Bangor. Haarmann received his doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1970 and completed his habilitation at the University of Trier in 1979. He has taught and researched at various German and Japanese universities and is a member of the research team at the Research Centre on Multilingualism (Brussels).

Since 2003 he has been Vice President of the Institute of Archaeomythology (headquarters in Sebastopol (California), USA) and Director of its European Branch (based in Finland).

Haarmann is the author of more than 40 books. He himself writes books in German and English. His books have been translated into numerous languages, including Spanish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Czech, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. He is the author of almost 200 articles and essays in ten languages. He has edited around 20 edited volumes. His preferred research areas are cultural and language contacts, the history of writing, language evolution, archaeomythology, the history of religion and classical studies.

Haarmann postulates the scientifically controversial hypothesis of a Danube civilization.

For his work he received the Prix logos (1999) from the Association européenne des linguistes et des professeurs de langues (Paris) and the Premio Jean Monnet (1999) in the field of essay literature. In 2006 he was awarded the Plato Award.

He lives and works in Finland.

Greek culture owes its Renaissance to the Macedonians

As mentioned at the beginning, we find the reference in the work "Lexicon of lost peoples: From Akkadians to Cimbri".

Here Haarmann also talks about the ancient Macedonians. In this section he explains how the history of Macedonia was shaped by contacts with the Greeks. He also explains that there was a lively cultural and economic exchange between the ancient Greeks and Macedonians.

One thing is certain, according to Haarmann and countless other authors, Alexander the Great was not a Greek. The author writes:

For a short time, Alexander's empire was the second largest in antiquity after the Roman Empire. Greek urban culture and language were spread to the borders of India at that time, and Greekness owes this Hellenistic renaissance to a non-Greek.


Source: Lexikon der untergegangenen Völker von Akkader bis Zimbern (Lexicon of lost peoples from Akkadians to Cimbri), Harald Haarmann

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