For the Greeks, Macedo was a derogatory name

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The work "Friedrich August Wolf's Lectures on Ancient Studies, Volume Four", published in 1835, is the subject of our short article today.

Friedrich August Christian Wilhelm Wolf, as he was known in full, was a German classical philologist and scholar of antiquity. He is considered the founder of classical and modern philology.

The following is a quote from page 28 (translated):


Macedonians should not be considered Greeks; the ancients did not count them among them and called them barbarians; in fact, Macedo was a derogatory name. They differed from the Greeks in their customs and had many barbaric characteristics long after the Greeks were already civilized. The first time we see Macedonia shine is in the time of Archelaus in Socrates. He had a court where Greek culture prevailed and a lot of young people around him. There was no culture in the country itself; this was only achieved in Philip's time. The Greeks did not easily count among themselves peoples who had sovereign kings, such as the Macedonians. The Macedonians were also distinguished from the Greeks by their language. It was based on the Doric dialect, which is not the coarsest, but was barbarized and deviated so much from the usual that it was difficult to understand a Macedonian. It was not a purely Greek dialect, cf. Strabo 6, page 320. Curtius lib. 9, cap. 9, 34. exaggerates it to the point that one could not have understood a Macedonian at all. But this man knows nothing. But one thing is certain: the Macedonians were very different from the Greeks in their form of government, customs and language; therefore Macedonia as Macedonia does not concern us here.




Source: Friedrich August Wolf's Vorlesungen über die Alterthumswissenschaft: Hrsg. Von J.d. Gürtler, 1835

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