Siege of Tyre 332 BC - Alexander the Great DOCUMENTARY
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The new Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series covering the conquests of Alexander III the Great of Macedon continues with the aftermath of the battle of Issus of 333 BC ( • Battle of Issus 333 BC... ) as Alexander continues his invasion of the Achaemenid Empire. With Achaemenid king Darius III's retreat, Alexander has an opening to attack the Levant, which leads to the famous siege of Tyre of 332 BC. We are planning to cover all campaigns of Alexander and all of his major battles, including Gaugamela, Tyre, Issus, Granicus, Halicarnassus, Gaza, Hydaspes and more.
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/Who is this 'Greene'
That basterd you westerns call it great, killed lots of civilians and burned lots of great palaces for no reason, he just started a bloodshed and died then hopefully parthians kicked out his generals.
Can you provide more detail on the Arab tribes you mentioned?
What background music did you guys use in this video?
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Little known fact about the siege: Due to the incredible task of building the land bridge, moral amongst Alexander's soldiers fell. He gave them a day off to wash and rest up. Alexander however worked by himself dragging large boulder after large boulder. Eventually his soldiers, not wanting to look weak when their King wasn't giving in to his exhausted state, got up and helped build the land bridge. This is one of the examples of what truly made Alexander great. He knew what needed to be done and his men rallied behind him to make the seemingly impossible possible. Great video as usual 👌👌
This is what truly defines the great captains, and enables their conquests; knowing exactly how to boost morale and connect with their men, making them love their generals and fight that much harder for them.
the man had a vision. no hellen alive even dreamt of making the once mighty persian empire kneel before him. and Alexander was not only a great strategist, but he inspired. it is why he is known as "The Great".
@@ragael1024 yes people say that Phillip could have produced the same results Alexander did, but he could never match his son's ambition. Between the education he received from Aristotle and the God complex instilled by his mother Olympias, combined with the physical gifts of Phillip, Alexander truly felt equal to the likes of Hercules and Achilles. The crazy thing is, if his army hadn't been so against it he would probably have ruled a bigger land mass than Ghengis Khan. The man is the epitome of greatness
Dude guilt trip his entire army lmao
That is definitely wild. Where were the kings and leaders like that through most of history? That sort of sounds like working with my nearly 60 year old dad.. My 35 year old self will be tired and ready to quit but he's still going like a madman and I feel like a wuss for even thinking about quitting. They don't make them like they used to - in both senses I suppose.
Tyre: You can't cross the sea without boats.
Alexander: _builds a bridge_
Tyre: *What a fucking...*
"What's he gonna do, use siege towers to attack an island? I'd like to see him try"
Some poor schmuck in Tyre, 332 BC
The fact that this structure actually changed the entire landmass and is still existent to this day. Truly incredible.
Thats some proper Dutch engineering if I may say so :P
The fact that this structure actually changed the entire landmass and is still existent to this day is truly incredible.
Answer my question: how the f*** is it possible that absolutely NO ONE had the idea to do a movie about this ?
History is definitively better than fiction
The only history most of society cares about these days are which celebrities have slept with each other and what politicians have lied about recently. Channels like this are my escape from the rat maze. This would make a great movie, but due to how the first Alexander movie went I doubt we'll ever get it
A Netflix or HBO or etc type of series would be better imo. Alexander’s life was simply too epic and far reaching to fit into a single film.
@@michaelsinger4638 like the serie Rome made by HBO. What a show, that was absolutely incredible
because this story is horseshit. lol.
Yeah, there was a movie called Alexander... but the director decided to go pass the siege of Tyre. It seems that Alexander Oedipus complex was more important for him than this epoch-making event.
I'm still disappointed that there has not been a series on Alexander the Great yet on the scale of Spartacus, Vikings, Rome, etc. A series about Alexander the Great can easily be 3 to 4 seasons long, longer if they include Philip II and segway into post Alexander's Empire.
That will never happen
@@toniangelovski3477 Only a Sith deals in absolutes...
Historical facts = By the way the Ancient Macedonians are Barbaros (= Not Greeks) BASICALLY. The Macedonian aristocracy just Hellenized (Adopted the Greek culture) their people (Macedonian), because the Hellenic culture was the most popular like the English of today.
Historical facts = Strabo (63 BC) tells us that Illyrians, Thracians, Bottians and Thesprotes shared the Macedonian territory (Tribes of Pelasgian origin 🇦🇱 ).
Source: (Strabo, VII, Frg .n°.11)
The Macedonians have just propagated the Hellenic culture and have adopted it little by little ...
The ancient authors called the Macedonians Barbaros/non-Greeks...
For example the great Thucydides...
Example : Thucydides 📜 (II, 80- IV, 126) who qualified of Barbaros (not Greek) the MACEDONIANS, Thesprotes, Molosses, Châones Atintanes, Paravaiens, Orestiens etc!
Moreover it is not the only one, far from there ....
Historical facts = The family of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
This last, according to the data, had a Macedonian father, but not his mother.
She was called Eurydice and came from the tribe of "Lyncestides".
Who was the grandmother on the side of the father of Alexander the Great?
The mother of Philip is the daughter of the daughter
Of Arrhabaeus, daughter of king Sirras, says Strabo.
Plutarch is very detailed on this subject.
He insists that although Eurydice is Illyrian (🇦🇱) and barbarian in every sense of the word, she was educated to help children.
He says very clearly that she is Illyrian, and barbaric in every way.
(Plutarch, De liberis educandis. p.69)
Lyncestides from where came the mother of Philip II, were a tribe which extended not far from the lake of Ohrid, somewhere in the area of Manastir where the ruins of one of their most important cities are today.
(Illyrian, no doubt. It is the last province that has a border with Macedonia)
As for whether it was an Illyrian tribe, this is clearly proven by ancient historians and geographers, including Titus Livy, Strabo, as well as Pliny who lists many in detail in the fourth book of the collection of 37 works entitled "Natural History", not to mention the great ancient geographer "Claudius Ptolemy" who also classifies the Lyncestrae among the Illyrian (🇦🇱) tribes .
And the later authors have the same attitude since on several occasions, they mention Eurydice, the mother of Philip II and the grandmother of Alexander, as being illyrian etc...
Here is what Demosthene says to us about Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great):
- "And yet, as regards Philip and his conduct, they
do not feel that, although he is not Greek and that he is not related at all to the Greeks..."
Source : (The Third Philippic)
By Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
Historical facts = Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.
But who was this woman who is said to have astonished the Macedonian king with her beauty ?
I will write based only on facts, that is, on the quotes of famous ancient authors, mainly Greek.
( For me there is one thing in history, which with the facts are not said ... )
According to Plutarch, Alexander was a descendant of Ajax through his father Neoptolemos and this is accepted without discussion.
According to Justin, Philip married Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molosses.
All the authors thus agree on the fact that Alexander the Great was the grandson of a Molossian.
For those who do not know this tribe (the Molossians), who were they, what territory did they occupy and how were they considered by the ancient authors ?
Let us stop for a moment to know more about the tribe of the Molossians from which the mother of Alexander the Great came.
To make it simple, the tribe of Molossians is in Epirus somewhere in the region of Chamerie on the back of Thesprotians who dominated the coastal part.
In addition to this, the Kaons who were in the south of present-day Albania and who constituted three of the great tribes of Epirus.
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others who composed Epirus like the Kaons, the Thesprotians, the Paraue, the Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or to a part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War that involved both actually in reality Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. Along with the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also ruled without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
( HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous Peloponnesian war in the 5th century B.C., are considered as barbarians, therefore not Greek!
( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what one called Epirus.
Among them are of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great !
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes as non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the Real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong links with the population of southern Italy!
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen author of the cycle "Corpus of Antiquity inscriptions" which says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him " .
Let us point out on this subject that the Albanians name themselves "Shqiptar", that is to say "sons or children of the eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter retroqued them one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle ...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable adversaries of the early days of ancient Rome).
Lorenzo Braccesi (Professor of Greek History at the University of Venice, Italy, in 1986) tells us:
- "Olympias was originally from Epirus, on the part of the father who was king of Epirus, on the part of the mother also and that Illyrian blood 🇦🇱 circulated in the family, there is no doubt. "
( 9,01- 9,15 . The true story of Alexander the great ... - Gjurmë Shqiptare )
That the Epirotes are or are not Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (current Albania) and religion.
Not only ancient authors like Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek) but also later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point out the same thing.
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and the sister .
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and sister of another well known Illyrian prince "Alexander the Molossus".
I believe that all or part of the strong character of Alexander comes exactly from his mother, from the house that also gave birth to Pyrrhus.
The powerful role of women in Illyrian society has been documented by many authors, including those who today identify themselves as Greeks, such as Athenaeus and Theompope.
Olympias' influence on her son Alexander was so great.
She believed that her son had divine blood and that he was born to rule the greatest kingdom of all time.
But the mother's family was not the only Illyrian family to which Alexander was affiliated, his link with the Illyrians was stronger than that!
@@Universal.. there is a name for this mental condition for people repeating themselves,time after time again.
There was a prophecy that Tyre - as punishment for its greed and other misdeeds - would be burned to the ground and cast into the sea.
And here our boy Alex is - chucking the stones that used to make up the city into the ocean so he could burn the rest of the city down.
Knowing Alexander, there is a good chance he might have known about that prophecy, and decided he was just the man to fulfill it.
They turned their back on Baal worship which gave way to greed and other misdeeds. Same as when the Romans abandoned Paganism for Christianity. The Pagan values is what led Rome to be a empire. A lot of times it's the spiritual weakness and not the physical weakness that leads to a empire's collapse.
I'm sure the dead children are paying for their sins of greed and baal worship
@@il967 What are the sins of Baal Worship?
@@sterlingsimmons2212 That you aren't worshiping YHWH
@@il967 YHWH, the God of the Isrealites. Read the first half of your bible then talk to me about sin and genocide that your God and people committed against the Cananites and other groups of people throughout history. I have a question what book, documentation or record is there commanding Canaanites to commit genocide against innocent people? The answer is there is none. Paganism, Zoasterism, and Baal Worship don't have no evil mess like that in their teachings.
Yes Gaugamela was a great victory, yes, the reforms made by Philip were extremely useful for the future conquest, but this, this was Alexander's pure strategic genius.
Strategic? Organizational maybe (even there, I see nothing that special, beyond stubbornness), but where in this you see strategic genius?
Oh nothing, it's just one of the most incredible sieges of antiquity...
@@AlcaturMaethor After the Battle of Issus, he sent heralds to Phoenician cities ahead of his army to secure their 'cooperation' in advance, allowing for the rapid conquest of the Levant. When building a causeway wasn't enough, he capitalized on the expertise and naval power of conquered Phoenician cities. When both measures weren't enough, he probed for a weak spot along the enemy's defensive perimeter and exploited it quickly with makeshift battering rams. During one stormy day, he quickly conceived of a plan to prevent the causeway from being washed away. It did not take long for him to find where the Arab marauders that harassed his foraging parties hide. Once he spotted their location, he led an assault party to their hideout while they were asleep, leading to one-sided slaughter.
When Napoleon was asked whom he thought was the best among his favorite generals, he said, “I place Alexander in the first rank. My reason for giving the preference to the king of Macedon is, on account of the conception, and above all, for the execution of his campaign in Asia. He can have no idea of war, who blames this prince for having spent seven months in the siege of Tyre. Had it been myself, I would have remained there seven years, if necessary. This is a grand subject; but, for my part, I consider the siege of Tyre, the conquest of Egypt, and the marching to the Oasis of Ammon, as proofs of the genius of this great captain."
If the Siege of Tyre was NOT an illustration of Alexander's strategic genius, why would you think Napoleon, the last of the great generals, placed Alexander on top of his idol ranking based on his exploits there?
@@matthewkira6668 This is an incredible answer, I didn't need it but I really enjoyed it, thank you for taking the time to write this.
Historical facts = By the way the Ancient Macedonians are Barbaros (= Not Greeks) BASICALLY. The Macedonian aristocracy just Hellenized (Adopted the Greek culture) their people (Macedonian), because the Hellenic culture was the most popular like the English of today.
Historical facts = Strabo (63 BC) tells us that Illyrians, Thracians, Bottians and Thesprotes shared the Macedonian territory (Tribes of Pelasgian origin 🇦🇱 ).
Source: (Strabo, VII, Frg .n°.11)
The Macedonians have just propagated the Hellenic culture and have adopted it little by little ...
The ancient authors called the Macedonians Barbaros/non-Greeks...
For example the great Thucydides...
Example : Thucydides 📜 (II, 80- IV, 126) who qualified of Barbaros (not Greek) the MACEDONIANS, Thesprotes, Molosses, Châones Atintanes, Paravaiens, Orestiens etc!
Moreover it is not the only one, far from there ....
Historical facts = The family of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
This last, according to the data, had a Macedonian father, but not his mother.
She was called Eurydice and came from the tribe of "Lyncestides".
Who was the grandmother on the side of the father of Alexander the Great?
The mother of Philip is the daughter of the daughter
Of Arrhabaeus, daughter of king Sirras, says Strabo.
Plutarch is very detailed on this subject.
He insists that although Eurydice is Illyrian (🇦🇱) and barbarian in every sense of the word, she was educated to help children.
He says very clearly that she is Illyrian, and barbaric in every way.
(Plutarch, De liberis educandis. p.69)
Lyncestides from where came the mother of Philip II, were a tribe which extended not far from the lake of Ohrid, somewhere in the area of Manastir where the ruins of one of their most important cities are today.
(Illyrian, no doubt. It is the last province that has a border with Macedonia)
As for whether it was an Illyrian tribe, this is clearly proven by ancient historians and geographers, including Titus Livy, Strabo, as well as Pliny who lists many in detail in the fourth book of the collection of 37 works entitled "Natural History", not to mention the great ancient geographer "Claudius Ptolemy" who also classifies the Lyncestrae among the Illyrian (🇦🇱) tribes .
And the later authors have the same attitude since on several occasions, they mention Eurydice, the mother of Philip II and the grandmother of Alexander, as being illyrian etc...
Here is what Demosthene says to us about Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great):
- "And yet, as regards Philip and his conduct, they
do not feel that, although he is not Greek and that he is not related at all to the Greeks..."
Source : (The Third Philippic)
By Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
I've been waiting for this video!! The siege of Tyre is just so crazy compared to other sieges in ancient times!
The seige of Masada is another one that'll blow your mind
This video gave so much detail that I never knew before. This siege was really crazy 🤯
@@g0dofimmortalityThe siege of Diu is amazing also
What other crazy sieges from antiquity would you guys recommend?
Iggy Nacho siege of Carthage in 149-146 BC, siege of Numancia in -134/-134 by Scipio Aemilianus, siege of Rhodes in -305 during the Wars of the Diadochi, the siege of Syracuse in -213/-212 and the siege of Tarentum in -209 during the Second Punic War
I did a research paper about Alexander in my college history and I always thought the phalanx was the only reason he was so successful. After reading about this battle, I started to think differently. He really was a brilliant general, far ahead of his time. I wish he would've lived another 10 years, just to see what else he could've accomplished.
I wish he would have kept going east straight into China. I wonder how the Greeks would have reacted being exposed to a strange place at that particular time in history.☺
@@GabrielEddy He might have conquered Arabia and Italy and possibly Carthage
@@SpartanLeonidas1821 haha your wrong ,by your logic Romans would have smashed Alexander and the Macedonian Greeks bcz we know later in history a handful of Romans came and conquered Greece and held it for 600years😂😂 . according to your own Greek historians this is what they have written .
"As for the Macedonians, however, their struggle with Porus blunted their courage and stayed their further advance into India. For having had all they could do to repulse an enemy who mustered only twenty thousand infantry and two thousand horse, they violently opposed Alexander when he insisted on crossing the river Ganges also, the width of which, as they learned, was thirty-two furlongs, its depth a hundred fathoms, while its banks on the further side were covered with multitudes of men-at-arms and horsemen and elephants. For they were told that the kings of the Ganderites and Praesii were awaiting them with eighty thousand horsemen, two hundred thousand footmen, eight thousand chariots, and six thousand fighting elephants".
- Plutarch's Lives
While Alexander did conquer the Indus valley portion of India ,he and his men were overwhelmed by porus,and they got new information that a huge empire to the east(gangaridai/nandas) were waiting for them at the other side and hence why they discontinued their campaign (Alexander may not have been scared but his men definitely were) all of these are according to ur own Greek sources so don't make up your own fantasy story.
@@extratropicalcyclone8567 you do realize that it took several Roman Consuls and armies to conquer Greece right Alexander’s army was never defeated routed or needed replacing of commanders to conquer a territory and the citizens of Macedon and Greece were eager for conquest Rome on the other hand was war weary on some extent and were willing to negotiate peace terms or cease fires they needed to stop and deal with matters at hime rather than abroad.
most o fth ehsitory was written mroe than 100 yrs after his death God knws the veracity of this and giving too much credit to one man
Alexander always seems to be very underrated when it comes to siege warfare by people I've noticed. He just did not let anything go no matter how ridiculous it seemed and his stubbornness counted for him in these instances. I also think Philip had he lived would have 100% agreed the terms Darius offered and he would have formed a marriage alliance. Alexander on the other hand, wanted glory above all else.
Because there are gods, us and there is Alexander
@@Leynx-Et-Fenrir Eh, he's a very poor second to Cyrus the Great, I'm afraid.
@@nwahnerevar9398 Cyrus was brilliant but Alexander conquered more and died at the age of just 32 having never been defeated. I think Alexander deserves a bit more credit than you're giving him. The old argument that his empire crumbled after his death doesn't really amount to much considering he could have reasonably expected to live for another 30 years and he had just started to administrate his empire more carefully before his death.
He was a genius, and I think that gets forgotten for his mostly "laddie" persona
@@BOSIE321 @BOSIE321 I'd say that Alexander was too too arrogant and his men too hostile to the ways of the people he conquered for Alexander to ever really have any chance of forge a long lasting Empire in the way the Achaemenids did. It's fair enough to say "what if he'd lived longer", but that what-if scenario always seems to ignore the negative aspects of Alexander's character, some of which may have contributed to his early death in the first place.
Greek and Lebanese history right here. East Mediterranean love. 🇬🇷🇱🇧💙🧿
Love to greece! From Tyre Lebanon!
🇱🇧❤🇬🇷
@EightFootSativa those lebos are literally their descendants lol
@@TheColombiano89 then who
@EightFootSativa Um yes they can?... they've done genetic studies on this. By that logic not very many people have known histories. Definitely not Europeans who are mutts of different peoples. Guess we don't know who the ancestors of the Germans were, probably gypsies lol
@@phoeniciangod3629 from beirut
This siege showed what a genius Alexander really was. How he was able to adapt and change depending on the situation in order to win.
I was esspecialy impressed by the wavebreaks
He was a strategic genius easily. Up there with Hannibal, Caesar and Sun Tzu
Alexander was an ancient conqueror. They tended to be ruthless.
Why are you surprised?
@@ii121 He was no more a monster than most rulers at the time, all throughout history when a city didn't surrender and forced the invaders to besiege a massacre was the expected result if the defenders fell.
Alexander was a genius but not on this one the Tyrians fought very well and countered every ploy made by the Macedonians and they themselves had executed a lot of maneuvers and tricks that Alexander couldn't counter and was forced to swallow the hits they lost because simply their foes had much more resources and manpower to the point that defeat was inevitable no matter how many small victories you have.
Besides Alexander got his priorities wrong Tyre strategic value wasn't worth it he shouldn't have wasted effort and men on the siege instead should've just moved on because sooner or later Tyre will have to submit peacefully due to Macedonian dominance on the world or he could've ended it from the start by being more diplomatic and settling it.
Alexander: New Tyre shall rejoin the mainland soon enough!
*And so, he connected New Tyre to Old Tyre* What a mad lad.
China: Write that down, write that down!
no.
Historical facts = By the way the Ancient Macedonians are Barbaros (= Not Greeks) BASICALLY. The Macedonian aristocracy just Hellenized (Adopted the Greek culture) their people (Macedonian), because the Hellenic culture was the most popular like the English of today.
Historical facts = Strabo (63 BC) tells us that Illyrians, Thracians, Bottians and Thesprotes shared the Macedonian territory (Tribes of Pelasgian origin 🇦🇱 ).
Source: (Strabo, VII, Frg .n°.11)
The Macedonians have just propagated the Hellenic culture and have adopted it little by little ...
The ancient authors called the Macedonians Barbaros/non-Greeks...
For example the great Thucydides...
Example : Thucydides 📜 (II, 80- IV, 126) who qualified of Barbaros (not Greek) the MACEDONIANS, Thesprotes, Molosses, Châones Atintanes, Paravaiens, Orestiens etc!
Moreover it is not the only one, far from there ....
Historical facts = The family of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
This last, according to the data, had a Macedonian father, but not his mother.
She was called Eurydice and came from the tribe of "Lyncestides".
Who was the grandmother on the side of the father of Alexander the Great?
The mother of Philip is the daughter of the daughter
Of Arrhabaeus, daughter of king Sirras, says Strabo.
Plutarch is very detailed on this subject.
He insists that although Eurydice is Illyrian (🇦🇱) and barbarian in every sense of the word, she was educated to help children.
He says very clearly that she is Illyrian, and barbaric in every way.
(Plutarch, De liberis educandis. p.69)
Lyncestides from where came the mother of Philip II, were a tribe which extended not far from the lake of Ohrid, somewhere in the area of Manastir where the ruins of one of their most important cities are today.
(Illyrian, no doubt. It is the last province that has a border with Macedonia)
As for whether it was an Illyrian tribe, this is clearly proven by ancient historians and geographers, including Titus Livy, Strabo, as well as Pliny who lists many in detail in the fourth book of the collection of 37 works entitled "Natural History", not to mention the great ancient geographer "Claudius Ptolemy" who also classifies the Lyncestrae among the Illyrian (🇦🇱) tribes .
And the later authors have the same attitude since on several occasions, they mention Eurydice, the mother of Philip II and the grandmother of Alexander, as being illyrian etc...
Here is what Demosthene says to us about Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great):
- "And yet, as regards Philip and his conduct, they
do not feel that, although he is not Greek and that he is not related at all to the Greeks..."
Source : (The Third Philippic)
By Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
Historical facts = Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.
But who was this woman who is said to have astonished the Macedonian king with her beauty ?
I will write based only on facts, that is, on the quotes of famous ancient authors, mainly Greek.
( For me there is one thing in history, which with the facts are not said ... )
According to Plutarch, Alexander was a descendant of Ajax through his father Neoptolemos and this is accepted without discussion.
According to Justin, Philip married Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molosses.
All the authors thus agree on the fact that Alexander the Great was the grandson of a Molossian.
For those who do not know this tribe (the Molossians), who were they, what territory did they occupy and how were they considered by the ancient authors ?
Let us stop for a moment to know more about the tribe of the Molossians from which the mother of Alexander the Great came.
To make it simple, the tribe of Molossians is in Epirus somewhere in the region of Chamerie on the back of Thesprotians who dominated the coastal part.
In addition to this, the Kaons who were in the south of present-day Albania and who constituted three of the great tribes of Epirus.
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others who composed Epirus like the Kaons, the Thesprotians, the Paraue, the Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or to a part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War that involved both actually in reality Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. Along with the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also ruled without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
( HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous Peloponnesian war in the 5th century B.C., are considered as barbarians, therefore not Greek!
( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what one called Epirus.
Among them are of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great !
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes as non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the Real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong links with the population of southern Italy!
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen author of the cycle "Corpus of Antiquity inscriptions" which says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him " .
Let us point out on this subject that the Albanians name themselves "Shqiptar", that is to say "sons or children of the eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter retroqued them one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle ...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable adversaries of the early days of ancient Rome).
Lorenzo Braccesi (Professor of Greek History at the University of Venice, Italy, in 1986) tells us:
- "Olympias was originally from Epirus, on the part of the father who was king of Epirus, on the part of the mother also and that Illyrian blood 🇦🇱 circulated in the family, there is no doubt. "
( 9,01- 9,15 . The true story of Alexander the great ... - Gjurmë Shqiptare )
That the Epirotes are or are not Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (current Albania) and religion.
Not only ancient authors like Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek) but also later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point out the same thing.
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and the sister .
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and sister of another well known Illyrian prince "Alexander the Molossus".
I believe that all or part of the strong character of Alexander comes exactly from his mother, from the house that also gave birth to Pyrrhus.
The powerful role of women in Illyrian society has been documented by many authors, including those who today identify themselves as Greeks, such as Athenaeus and Theompope.
Olympias' influence on her son Alexander was so great.
She believed that her son had divine blood and that he was born to rule the greatest kingdom of all time.
But the mother's family was not the only Illyrian family to which Alexander was affiliated, his link with the Illyrians was stronger than that!
pred 25 veka FILIP KRAL NA MAKEDONIJA se oz'enil so Olimpija.
pred 25 veka EPIR ----- na istok od MAKEDONIJA .
One of the most legendary sieges of all time. Alexander the Greatest.
Historical facts = By the way the Ancient Macedonians are Barbaros (= Not Greeks) BASICALLY. The Macedonian aristocracy just Hellenized (Adopted the Greek culture) their people (Macedonian), because the Hellenic culture was the most popular like the English of today.
Historical facts = Strabo (63 BC) tells us that Illyrians, Thracians, Bottians and Thesprotes shared the Macedonian territory (Tribes of Pelasgian origin 🇦🇱 ).
Source: (Strabo, VII, Frg .n°.11)
The Macedonians have just propagated the Hellenic culture and have adopted it little by little ...
The ancient authors called the Macedonians Barbaros/non-Greeks...
For example the great Thucydides...
Example : Thucydides 📜 (II, 80- IV, 126) who qualified of Barbaros (not Greek) the MACEDONIANS, Thesprotes, Molosses, Châones Atintanes, Paravaiens, Orestiens etc!
Moreover it is not the only one, far from there ....
Historical facts = The family of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
This last, according to the data, had a Macedonian father, but not his mother.
She was called Eurydice and came from the tribe of "Lyncestides".
Who was the grandmother on the side of the father of Alexander the Great?
The mother of Philip is the daughter of the daughter
Of Arrhabaeus, daughter of king Sirras, says Strabo.
Plutarch is very detailed on this subject.
He insists that although Eurydice is Illyrian (🇦🇱) and barbarian in every sense of the word, she was educated to help children.
He says very clearly that she is Illyrian, and barbaric in every way.
(Plutarch, De liberis educandis. p.69)
Lyncestides from where came the mother of Philip II, were a tribe which extended not far from the lake of Ohrid, somewhere in the area of Manastir where the ruins of one of their most important cities are today.
(Illyrian, no doubt. It is the last province that has a border with Macedonia)
As for whether it was an Illyrian tribe, this is clearly proven by ancient historians and geographers, including Titus Livy, Strabo, as well as Pliny who lists many in detail in the fourth book of the collection of 37 works entitled "Natural History", not to mention the great ancient geographer "Claudius Ptolemy" who also classifies the Lyncestrae among the Illyrian (🇦🇱) tribes .
And the later authors have the same attitude since on several occasions, they mention Eurydice, the mother of Philip II and the grandmother of Alexander, as being illyrian etc...
Here is what Demosthene says to us about Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great):
- "And yet, as regards Philip and his conduct, they
do not feel that, although he is not Greek and that he is not related at all to the Greeks..."
Source : (The Third Philippic)
By Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
Historical facts = Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.
But who was this woman who is said to have astonished the Macedonian king with her beauty ?
I will write based only on facts, that is, on the quotes of famous ancient authors, mainly Greek.
( For me there is one thing in history, which with the facts are not said ... )
According to Plutarch, Alexander was a descendant of Ajax through his father Neoptolemos and this is accepted without discussion.
According to Justin, Philip married Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molosses.
All the authors thus agree on the fact that Alexander the Great was the grandson of a Molossian.
For those who do not know this tribe (the Molossians), who were they, what territory did they occupy and how were they considered by the ancient authors ?
Let us stop for a moment to know more about the tribe of the Molossians from which the mother of Alexander the Great came.
To make it simple, the tribe of Molossians is in Epirus somewhere in the region of Chamerie on the back of Thesprotians who dominated the coastal part.
In addition to this, the Kaons who were in the south of present-day Albania and who constituted three of the great tribes of Epirus.
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others who composed Epirus like the Kaons, the Thesprotians, the Paraue, the Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or to a part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War that involved both actually in reality Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. Along with the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also ruled without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
( HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous Peloponnesian war in the 5th century B.C., are considered as barbarians, therefore not Greek!
( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what one called Epirus.
Among them are of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great !
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes as non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the Real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong links with the population of southern Italy!
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen author of the cycle "Corpus of Antiquity inscriptions" which says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him " .
Let us point out on this subject that the Albanians name themselves "Shqiptar", that is to say "sons or children of the eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter retroqued them one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle ...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable adversaries of the early days of ancient Rome).
Lorenzo Braccesi (Professor of Greek History at the University of Venice, Italy, in 1986) tells us:
- "Olympias was originally from Epirus, on the part of the father who was king of Epirus, on the part of the mother also and that Illyrian blood 🇦🇱 circulated in the family, there is no doubt. "
( 9,01- 9,15 . The true story of Alexander the great ... - Gjurmë Shqiptare )
That the Epirotes are or are not Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (current Albania) and religion.
Not only ancient authors like Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek) but also later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point out the same thing.
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and the sister .
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and sister of another well known Illyrian prince "Alexander the Molossus".
I believe that all or part of the strong character of Alexander comes exactly from his mother, from the house that also gave birth to Pyrrhus.
The powerful role of women in Illyrian society has been documented by many authors, including those who today identify themselves as Greeks, such as Athenaeus and Theompope.
Olympias' influence on her son Alexander was so great.
She believed that her son had divine blood and that he was born to rule the greatest kingdom of all time.
But the mother's family was not the only Illyrian family to which Alexander was affiliated, his link with the Illyrians was stronger than that!
Fun Fact: The Neo-Babylonian Empire of Nebuchadnazzer II besieged Tyre during 15 years, and they couldn't break it, althought many fleed to what will be Carthage
Alexander was probably aware of this. Student of history that he was.
@@michaelsinger4638 That is almost certain, however the people of Tyre probably remember this and were overconfident.
Great comment. This showed how much of a military genius Alexander really was.
@@michaelsinger4638 no he wasn't. lol. Cyropaedia was filled with bullshit propaganda and he believed it like Trump believing alex jones.
Nebuchadnezzar did break the siege, they literally conquered the city. Hahaha
“Do you really think you are safe from me because you live on a island? Do you despise this army of foot soldiers so much? I am going to show you that you do not live on an island at all!”
- Alexander(Phillip Freeman)
To me this is one of the greatest displays of persistence ever
@@sicsempertyrannis3782 Aristotle would be proud
@@davyroger3773 I’ve read the Phillip Freeman book, the writing is very good
sounds like a whiner.
@@archivesoffantasy5560 Yeah it's a great read. I want to check out the Robin Lane Fox version to see if it adds a new perspective
I remember reading this book and hoping for years that Kings and Generals would make a video about the Siege of Tyre!
For a guy that was famously arrogant and often short tempered. He sure as hell was an amazing leader of fighting men. He's without a doubt one of the greatest leaders in world history. If I was a soldier in his army I would've easily gone to hell and back with him without hesitation.
It's because you know no matter what he will fight with you the whole way there and back
all fun and games until a drunk Alexander comes and stabs you
@@naiad5043 most kings killed people for far less. Cleitus pushed his luck way too far.
no he wasn't and no you wouldn't. you're just another edgy sociopath.
@@saeedvazirian1620 armenian hater of Greeks
The reason why Tyre felt so confident and why everyone looked on with such intensity at the siege, was not just because tyre is very defendable, but also because Tyre had a history of repelling invaders. For example, the King of the Neo babylonian empire spent 11 years besieging the city of new Tyre only to give up and let them be. Taking Tyre was a historical achievement, and what it symbolized was that not only was Alexander great on the battlefield, but it didn't even matter how great your defenses were, you wouldn't be safe unless you submitted. It helped Alexander alot to have that reputation.
That siege was very Tyresome
This is his most amazing feat in my opinion. Dude literally had a landbridge built over an ocean segment.
Yep. Nearly 2500 years later, Tyre is still a peninsula.
@@benlewis5312 Not to mention how sturdy it must have been to be able to drive towers and catapults across, as well as his forces at the same time. So he legitimately created a lasting landbridge which, as you said, still stands today. I can't think of another example of human engineering that linked landmasses and has lasted for this long. That is just astounding to me.
except that he didn't. There's literally no evidence to prove this.
@@saeedvazirian1620 There is literally next to no evidence that anything from the ancient world happened as all we have are tiny bits and scraps of writings that we either can accept or treat as horseshit. Given that Tyre is now legitimately connected to the mainland in only a portion and not the entire section facing the mainland, I would say that indicates a good chance it is legitimate.
@@saeedvazirian1620 Except, you know, the actual land bridge existing today.
This series can't come out quick enough, the long waits in between episodes are killing me.
Yep me too. Alexander doesn't even seem human. His accomplishments and stories of his ability to overcome staggering obstacles are straight up Herculean.
I quite enjoy the waits, gives me something to look forward to.
@@jonbaxter2254 Well yeah, but almost two months is pushing it
@@librajedi I can't wait for the series Michael Hirst is working on, which will be on him.
@@kynandecoster3752 I'm unfamiliar with him but if he's a decent historian I will definitely check him out
This series of episodes are amazing. The storytelling is fantastic and the animation is so helpful in order to understand what was really happening there. I really hope you continue the series about Alexander the Great
Αν το σκεφτείς αν οι Φοίνικες δον του πρόσφεραν 80 πλοία και 3 από τους 12 Κύπριους Βασιλείς άλλα 120 θα έχανε στην Τύρο. Οι Μακεδόνες είχαν ένα στόλο που μάζεψαν από όλη την Ελλάδα εκτός της Λακωνίας μόνο 120 πλοίων, μια περίοδο που οι 12 Βασιλείς της Κύπρου είχαν 480 πλοία και του δάνεισαν το 1/4. Αν ακόμη η Αίγυπτος δεν παραδινόταν τα πράγματα θα ήταν δύσκολα.
Historical facts = By the way the Ancient Macedonians are Barbaros (= Not Greeks) BASICALLY. The Macedonian aristocracy just Hellenized (Adopted the Greek culture) their people (Macedonian), because the Hellenic culture was the most popular like the English of today.
Historical facts = Strabo (63 BC) tells us that Illyrians, Thracians, Bottians and Thesprotes shared the Macedonian territory (Tribes of Pelasgian origin 🇦🇱 ).
Source: (Strabo, VII, Frg .n°.11)
The Macedonians have just propagated the Hellenic culture and have adopted it little by little ...
The ancient authors called the Macedonians Barbaros/non-Greeks...
For example the great Thucydides...
Example : Thucydides 📜 (II, 80- IV, 126) who qualified of Barbaros (not Greek) the MACEDONIANS, Thesprotes, Molosses, Châones Atintanes, Paravaiens, Orestiens etc!
Moreover it is not the only one, far from there ....
Historical facts = The family of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
This last, according to the data, had a Macedonian father, but not his mother.
She was called Eurydice and came from the tribe of "Lyncestides".
Who was the grandmother on the side of the father of Alexander the Great?
The mother of Philip is the daughter of the daughter
Of Arrhabaeus, daughter of king Sirras, says Strabo.
Plutarch is very detailed on this subject.
He insists that although Eurydice is Illyrian (🇦🇱) and barbarian in every sense of the word, she was educated to help children.
He says very clearly that she is Illyrian, and barbaric in every way.
(Plutarch, De liberis educandis. p.69)
Lyncestides from where came the mother of Philip II, were a tribe which extended not far from the lake of Ohrid, somewhere in the area of Manastir where the ruins of one of their most important cities are today.
(Illyrian, no doubt. It is the last province that has a border with Macedonia)
As for whether it was an Illyrian tribe, this is clearly proven by ancient historians and geographers, including Titus Livy, Strabo, as well as Pliny who lists many in detail in the fourth book of the collection of 37 works entitled "Natural History", not to mention the great ancient geographer "Claudius Ptolemy" who also classifies the Lyncestrae among the Illyrian (🇦🇱) tribes .
And the later authors have the same attitude since on several occasions, they mention Eurydice, the mother of Philip II and the grandmother of Alexander, as being illyrian etc...
Here is what Demosthene says to us about Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great):
- "And yet, as regards Philip and his conduct, they
do not feel that, although he is not Greek and that he is not related at all to the Greeks..."
Source : (The Third Philippic)
By Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
Historical facts = Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.
But who was this woman who is said to have astonished the Macedonian king with her beauty ?
I will write based only on facts, that is, on the quotes of famous ancient authors, mainly Greek.
( For me there is one thing in history, which with the facts are not said ... )
According to Plutarch, Alexander was a descendant of Ajax through his father Neoptolemos and this is accepted without discussion.
According to Justin, Philip married Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molosses.
All the authors thus agree on the fact that Alexander the Great was the grandson of a Molossian.
For those who do not know this tribe (the Molossians), who were they, what territory did they occupy and how were they considered by the ancient authors ?
Let us stop for a moment to know more about the tribe of the Molossians from which the mother of Alexander the Great came.
To make it simple, the tribe of Molossians is in Epirus somewhere in the region of Chamerie on the back of Thesprotians who dominated the coastal part.
In addition to this, the Kaons who were in the south of present-day Albania and who constituted three of the great tribes of Epirus.
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others who composed Epirus like the Kaons, the Thesprotians, the Paraue, the Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or to a part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War that involved both actually in reality Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. Along with the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also ruled without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
( HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous Peloponnesian war in the 5th century B.C., are considered as barbarians, therefore not Greek!
( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what one called Epirus.
Among them are of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great !
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes as non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the Real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong links with the population of southern Italy!
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen author of the cycle "Corpus of Antiquity inscriptions" which says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him " .
Let us point out on this subject that the Albanians name themselves "Shqiptar", that is to say "sons or children of the eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter retroqued them one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle ...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable adversaries of the early days of ancient Rome).
Lorenzo Braccesi (Professor of Greek History at the University of Venice, Italy, in 1986) tells us:
- "Olympias was originally from Epirus, on the part of the father who was king of Epirus, on the part of the mother also and that Illyrian blood 🇦🇱 circulated in the family, there is no doubt. "
( 9,01- 9,15 . The true story of Alexander the great ... - Gjurmë Shqiptare )
That the Epirotes are or are not Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (current Albania) and religion.
Not only ancient authors like Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek) but also later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point out the same thing.
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and the sister .
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and sister of another well known Illyrian prince "Alexander the Molossus".
I believe that all or part of the strong character of Alexander comes exactly from his mother, from the house that also gave birth to Pyrrhus.
The powerful role of women in Illyrian society has been documented by many authors, including those who today identify themselves as Greeks, such as Athenaeus and Theompope.
Olympias' influence on her son Alexander was so great.
She believed that her son had divine blood and that he was born to rule the greatest kingdom of all time.
But the mother's family was not the only Illyrian family to which Alexander was affiliated, his link with the Illyrians was stronger than that!
@@Universal.. 😂😂albanian bot try to confuse people
In all of his battles, I like this siege the most, you can see how persistent and strong willed he was to win at all cost, trying every possible way, amongst all obstacles, this one is the most inspiring of all. I love Alexander the great!
Hello, I'am from tyre and very proud to be ❤️🇱🇧
Historical facts = By the way the Ancient Macedonians are Barbaros (= Not Greeks) BASICALLY. The Macedonian aristocracy just Hellenized (Adopted the Greek culture) their people (Macedonian), because the Hellenic culture was the most popular like the English of today.
Historical facts = Strabo (63 BC) tells us that Illyrians, Thracians, Bottians and Thesprotes shared the Macedonian territory (Tribes of Pelasgian origin 🇦🇱 ).
Source: (Strabo, VII, Frg .n°.11)
The Macedonians have just propagated the Hellenic culture and have adopted it little by little ...
The ancient authors called the Macedonians Barbaros/non-Greeks...
For example the great Thucydides...
Example : Thucydides 📜 (II, 80- IV, 126) who qualified of Barbaros (not Greek) the MACEDONIANS, Thesprotes, Molosses, Châones Atintanes, Paravaiens, Orestiens etc!
Moreover it is not the only one, far from there ....
Historical facts = The family of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
This last, according to the data, had a Macedonian father, but not his mother.
She was called Eurydice and came from the tribe of "Lyncestides".
Who was the grandmother on the side of the father of Alexander the Great?
The mother of Philip is the daughter of the daughter
Of Arrhabaeus, daughter of king Sirras, says Strabo.
Plutarch is very detailed on this subject.
He insists that although Eurydice is Illyrian (🇦🇱) and barbarian in every sense of the word, she was educated to help children.
He says very clearly that she is Illyrian, and barbaric in every way.
(Plutarch, De liberis educandis. p.69)
Lyncestides from where came the mother of Philip II, were a tribe which extended not far from the lake of Ohrid, somewhere in the area of Manastir where the ruins of one of their most important cities are today.
(Illyrian, no doubt. It is the last province that has a border with Macedonia)
As for whether it was an Illyrian tribe, this is clearly proven by ancient historians and geographers, including Titus Livy, Strabo, as well as Pliny who lists many in detail in the fourth book of the collection of 37 works entitled "Natural History", not to mention the great ancient geographer "Claudius Ptolemy" who also classifies the Lyncestrae among the Illyrian (🇦🇱) tribes .
And the later authors have the same attitude since on several occasions, they mention Eurydice, the mother of Philip II and the grandmother of Alexander, as being illyrian etc...
Here is what Demosthene says to us about Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great):
- "And yet, as regards Philip and his conduct, they
do not feel that, although he is not Greek and that he is not related at all to the Greeks..."
Source : (The Third Philippic)
By Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
Historical facts = Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.
But who was this woman who is said to have astonished the Macedonian king with her beauty ?
I will write based only on facts, that is, on the quotes of famous ancient authors, mainly Greek.
( For me there is one thing in history, which with the facts are not said ... )
According to Plutarch, Alexander was a descendant of Ajax through his father Neoptolemos and this is accepted without discussion.
According to Justin, Philip married Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molosses.
All the authors thus agree on the fact that Alexander the Great was the grandson of a Molossian.
For those who do not know this tribe (the Molossians), who were they, what territory did they occupy and how were they considered by the ancient authors ?
Let us stop for a moment to know more about the tribe of the Molossians from which the mother of Alexander the Great came.
To make it simple, the tribe of Molossians is in Epirus somewhere in the region of Chamerie on the back of Thesprotians who dominated the coastal part.
In addition to this, the Kaons who were in the south of present-day Albania and who constituted three of the great tribes of Epirus.
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others who composed Epirus like the Kaons, the Thesprotians, the Paraue, the Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or to a part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War that involved both actually in reality Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. Along with the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also ruled without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
( HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous Peloponnesian war in the 5th century B.C., are considered as barbarians, therefore not Greek!
( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what one called Epirus.
Among them are of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great !
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes as non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the Real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong links with the population of southern Italy!
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen author of the cycle "Corpus of Antiquity inscriptions" which says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him " .
Let us point out on this subject that the Albanians name themselves "Shqiptar", that is to say "sons or children of the eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter retroqued them one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle ...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable adversaries of the early days of ancient Rome).
Lorenzo Braccesi (Professor of Greek History at the University of Venice, Italy, in 1986) tells us:
- "Olympias was originally from Epirus, on the part of the father who was king of Epirus, on the part of the mother also and that Illyrian blood 🇦🇱 circulated in the family, there is no doubt. "
( 9,01- 9,15 . The true story of Alexander the great ... - Gjurmë Shqiptare )
That the Epirotes are or are not Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (current Albania) and religion.
Not only ancient authors like Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek) but also later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point out the same thing.
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and the sister .
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and sister of another well known Illyrian prince "Alexander the Molossus".
I believe that all or part of the strong character of Alexander comes exactly from his mother, from the house that also gave birth to Pyrrhus.
The powerful role of women in Illyrian society has been documented by many authors, including those who today identify themselves as Greeks, such as Athenaeus and Theompope.
Olympias' influence on her son Alexander was so great.
She believed that her son had divine blood and that he was born to rule the greatest kingdom of all time.
But the mother's family was not the only Illyrian family to which Alexander was affiliated, his link with the Illyrians was stronger than that!
Alexander the Great puncturing the city of Tyre showed his brilliance once again. Of all people who are given the title "the Great" Alexander stands above them all.
After Cyrus and Darius
@@bartrijken1577 Yeah these two accomplished great military feats with less waste, less massacres and actually built something that would last rather than crumble after an early death.
@@bartrijken1577 Cyrus definitely gets ‘the Great’ but im not sure about Darius.
@@TheSonOfPlato He was a great administator
though napoleon isn't called the great, i would argue that he is better than alexander.
The siege of Tyre is what really sealed Alexander's name as one of the greatest military commanders in history.
@asahi toki for someone who basically conquered the world, no, he's not overrated, stupid.
@@prs_81 Armenia - you're wrong
Kwarasm- who tf cares
@@prs_81 The west was still under heavy Greek influence and also the Greeks were not aware of how much land was left to be conquered in the east since India was believed to be the furthest edge of the world; this is another reason why Alexander's men were unwilling to follow him in his campaigns east.
@@christermi alexander couldn't even conquer the spartans or Persepolis. Lol.
@@christermi nope, Carthage and rome were very well developed by that time, in fact Carthage was the largest and most developed city in the world at the time with 500,000 people, if you don’t conquer those lands, you definitely have not conquered or controlled almost all the world.
This videos hits harder when you're from Lebanon and been to Tyre countless times. Amazing work!
Historical facts = By the way the Ancient Macedonians are Barbaros (= Not Greeks) BASICALLY. The Macedonian aristocracy just Hellenized (Adopted the Greek culture) their people (Macedonian), because the Hellenic culture was the most popular like the English of today.
Historical facts = Strabo (63 BC) tells us that Illyrians, Thracians, Bottians and Thesprotes shared the Macedonian territory (Tribes of Pelasgian origin 🇦🇱 ).
Source: (Strabo, VII, Frg .n°.11)
The Macedonians have just propagated the Hellenic culture and have adopted it little by little ...
The ancient authors called the Macedonians Barbaros/non-Greeks...
For example the great Thucydides...
Example : Thucydides 📜 (II, 80- IV, 126) who qualified of Barbaros (not Greek) the MACEDONIANS, Thesprotes, Molosses, Châones Atintanes, Paravaiens, Orestiens etc!
Moreover it is not the only one, far from there ....
Historical facts = The family of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
This last, according to the data, had a Macedonian father, but not his mother.
She was called Eurydice and came from the tribe of "Lyncestides".
Who was the grandmother on the side of the father of Alexander the Great?
The mother of Philip is the daughter of the daughter
Of Arrhabaeus, daughter of king Sirras, says Strabo.
Plutarch is very detailed on this subject.
He insists that although Eurydice is Illyrian (🇦🇱) and barbarian in every sense of the word, she was educated to help children.
He says very clearly that she is Illyrian, and barbaric in every way.
(Plutarch, De liberis educandis. p.69)
Lyncestides from where came the mother of Philip II, were a tribe which extended not far from the lake of Ohrid, somewhere in the area of Manastir where the ruins of one of their most important cities are today.
(Illyrian, no doubt. It is the last province that has a border with Macedonia)
As for whether it was an Illyrian tribe, this is clearly proven by ancient historians and geographers, including Titus Livy, Strabo, as well as Pliny who lists many in detail in the fourth book of the collection of 37 works entitled "Natural History", not to mention the great ancient geographer "Claudius Ptolemy" who also classifies the Lyncestrae among the Illyrian (🇦🇱) tribes .
And the later authors have the same attitude since on several occasions, they mention Eurydice, the mother of Philip II and the grandmother of Alexander, as being illyrian etc...
Here is what Demosthene says to us about Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great):
- "And yet, as regards Philip and his conduct, they
do not feel that, although he is not Greek and that he is not related at all to the Greeks..."
Source : (The Third Philippic)
By Demosthenes (384-322 BC).
Historical facts = Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.
But who was this woman who is said to have astonished the Macedonian king with her beauty ?
I will write based only on facts, that is, on the quotes of famous ancient authors, mainly Greek.
( For me there is one thing in history, which with the facts are not said ... )
According to Plutarch, Alexander was a descendant of Ajax through his father Neoptolemos and this is accepted without discussion.
According to Justin, Philip married Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molosses.
All the authors thus agree on the fact that Alexander the Great was the grandson of a Molossian.
For those who do not know this tribe (the Molossians), who were they, what territory did they occupy and how were they considered by the ancient authors ?
Let us stop for a moment to know more about the tribe of the Molossians from which the mother of Alexander the Great came.
To make it simple, the tribe of Molossians is in Epirus somewhere in the region of Chamerie on the back of Thesprotians who dominated the coastal part.
In addition to this, the Kaons who were in the south of present-day Albania and who constituted three of the great tribes of Epirus.
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others who composed Epirus like the Kaons, the Thesprotians, the Paraue, the Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or to a part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War that involved both actually in reality Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. Along with the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also ruled without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
( HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous Peloponnesian war in the 5th century B.C., are considered as barbarians, therefore not Greek!
( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what one called Epirus.
Among them are of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great !
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes as non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the Real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong links with the population of southern Italy!
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen author of the cycle "Corpus of Antiquity inscriptions" which says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him " .
Let us point out on this subject that the Albanians name themselves "Shqiptar", that is to say "sons or children of the eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter retroqued them one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle ...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable adversaries of the early days of ancient Rome).
Lorenzo Braccesi (Professor of Greek History at the University of Venice, Italy, in 1986) tells us:
- "Olympias was originally from Epirus, on the part of the father who was king of Epirus, on the part of the mother also and that Illyrian blood 🇦🇱 circulated in the family, there is no doubt. "
( 9,01- 9,15 . The true story of Alexander the great ... - Gjurmë Shqiptare )
That the Epirotes are or are not Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (current Albania) and religion.
Not only ancient authors like Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek) but also later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point out the same thing.
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and the sister .
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and sister of another well known Illyrian prince "Alexander the Molossus".
I believe that all or part of the strong character of Alexander comes exactly from his mother, from the house that also gave birth to Pyrrhus.
The powerful role of women in Illyrian society has been documented by many authors, including those who today identify themselves as Greeks, such as Athenaeus and Theompope.
Olympias' influence on her son Alexander was so great.
She believed that her son had divine blood and that he was born to rule the greatest kingdom of all time.
But the mother's family was not the only Illyrian family to which Alexander was affiliated, his link with the Illyrians was stronger than that!.
Did you eat at Mahfouz 😉?
@@Universal..historical facts: there are no ancient Albanians. Stop stealing history
Cheers from Tyre Lebanon! 🥂🍾🇱🇧🇱🇧
Seeing how the land bridge transformed to what is modern day Tyre, Lebanon is truly amazing.
Tyre: Alexander you can't build a Bridge on water.
Alexander: Builts a Bridge on water.
Tyre : Surprised Pikachu face.
Historical facts = By the way the Ancient Macedonians are Barbaros (= Not Greeks) BASICALLY. The Macedonian aristocracy just Hellenized (Adopted the Greek culture) their people (Macedonian), because the Hellenic culture was the most popular like the English of today.
Historical facts = Strabo (63 BC) tells us that Illyrians, Thracians, Bottians and Thesprotes shared the Macedonian territory (Tribes of Pelasgian origin 🇦🇱 ).
Source: (Strabo, VII, Frg .n°.11)
The Macedonians have just propagated the Hellenic culture and have adopted it little by little ...
The ancient authors called the Macedonians Barbaros/non-Greeks...
For example the great Thucydides...
Example : Thucydides 📜 (II, 80- IV, 126) who qualified of Barbaros (not Greek) the MACEDONIANS, Thesprotes, Molosses, Châones Atintanes, Paravaiens, Orestiens etc!
Moreover it is not the only one, far from there ....
Historical facts = The family of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
This last, according to the data, had a Macedonian father, but not his mother.
She was called Eurydice and came from the tribe of "Lyncestides".
Who was the grandmother on the side of the father of Alexander the Great?
The mother of Philip is the daughter of the daughter
Of Arrhabaeus, daughter of king Sirras, says Strabo.
Plutarch is very detailed on this subject.
He insists that although Eurydice is Illyrian (🇦🇱) and barbarian in every sense of the word, she was educated to help children.
He says very clearly that she is Illyrian, and barbaric in every way.
(Plutarch, De liberis educandis. p.69)
Lyncestides from where came the mother of Philip II, were a tribe which extended not far from the lake of Ohrid, somewhere in the area of Manastir where the ruins of one of their most important cities are today.
(Illyrian, no doubt. It is the last province that has a border with Macedonia)
As for whether it was an Illyrian tribe, this is clearly proven by ancient historians and geographers, including Titus Livy, Strabo, as well as Pliny who lists many in detail in the fourth book of the collection of 37 works entitled "Natural History", not to mention the great ancient geographer "Claudius Ptolemy" who also classifies the Lyncestrae among the Illyrian (🇦🇱) tribes .
And the later authors have the same attitude since on several occasions, they mention Eurydice, the mother of Philip II and the grandmother of Alexander, as being illyrian etc...
Here is what Demosthene says to us about Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great):
- "And yet, as regards Philip and his conduct, they
do not feel that, although he is not Greek and that he is not related at all to the Greeks..."
Source : (The Third Philippic)
By Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
Historical facts = Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.
But who was this woman who is said to have astonished the Macedonian king with her beauty ?
I will write based only on facts, that is, on the quotes of famous ancient authors, mainly Greek.
( For me there is one thing in history, which with the facts are not said ... )
According to Plutarch, Alexander was a descendant of Ajax through his father Neoptolemos and this is accepted without discussion.
According to Justin, Philip married Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molosses.
All the authors thus agree on the fact that Alexander the Great was the grandson of a Molossian.
For those who do not know this tribe (the Molossians), who were they, what territory did they occupy and how were they considered by the ancient authors ?
Let us stop for a moment to know more about the tribe of the Molossians from which the mother of Alexander the Great came.
To make it simple, the tribe of Molossians is in Epirus somewhere in the region of Chamerie on the back of Thesprotians who dominated the coastal part.
In addition to this, the Kaons who were in the south of present-day Albania and who constituted three of the great tribes of Epirus.
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others who composed Epirus like the Kaons, the Thesprotians, the Paraue, the Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or to a part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War that involved both actually in reality Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. Along with the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also ruled without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
( HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous Peloponnesian war in the 5th century B.C., are considered as barbarians, therefore not Greek!
( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what one called Epirus.
Among them are of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great !
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes as non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the Real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong links with the population of southern Italy!
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen author of the cycle "Corpus of Antiquity inscriptions" which says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him " .
Let us point out on this subject that the Albanians name themselves "Shqiptar", that is to say "sons or children of the eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter retroqued them one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle ...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable adversaries of the early days of ancient Rome).
Lorenzo Braccesi (Professor of Greek History at the University of Venice, Italy, in 1986) tells us:
- "Olympias was originally from Epirus, on the part of the father who was king of Epirus, on the part of the mother also and that Illyrian blood 🇦🇱 circulated in the family, there is no doubt. "
( 9,01- 9,15 . The true story of Alexander the great ... - Gjurmë Shqiptare )
That the Epirotes are or are not Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (current Albania) and religion.
Not only ancient authors like Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek) but also later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point out the same thing.
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and the sister .
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and sister of another well known Illyrian prince "Alexander the Molossus".
I believe that all or part of the strong character of Alexander comes exactly from his mother, from the house that also gave birth to Pyrrhus.
The powerful role of women in Illyrian society has been documented by many authors, including those who today identify themselves as Greeks, such as Athenaeus and Theompope.
Olympias' influence on her son Alexander was so great.
She believed that her son had divine blood and that he was born to rule the greatest kingdom of all time.
But the mother's family was not the only Illyrian family to which Alexander was affiliated, his link with the Illyrians was stronger than that!
The creativity of generals are one to be feared in itself.
On one hand I'm marvelling at the ingenuity and persistence of Alexander, on the other hand, I'm just appalled at the carnage which men such as him wrought on the many innocents who were only trying to find their daily bread.
That's how I feel about it too. The innovation and determination he showed was superhuman, and it's true that Tyre escalated the conflict by killing Alexander's emissaries. However, Alexander was the aggressor in most of his campaigns , including this one, and he would probably have found another reason to attack Tyre.
I wonder if here they're going to detail what happened in Persepolis, between fellow soldiers they were chopping each others arms to take more loot and there was a copious amount of mass suicides before being caught by the macedonians...
But this is not the end... Alexander's most btutal sieges are the most overlooked ones in the Indian campaign. There was even women joining the fight (after failing to escape on fake surrender) grabbing the soldier's shields with no avail... The siege of Aornos was not genius but sheer persistence (you can see in the doc On the footsteps of Alexander to see how high the army climbed under constant rain of projectiles)
And in mallia they killed everything that moved after believing Alexander was killed
then you shouldn't be marvelled by it by definition. If this is merely a dilemma for you, you have a problem.
They should make a movie based on the siege of Tyre alone.
My thoughts exactly.
They should make another Alexander movie, the previous one was a mess.
@@mitjed it had some nice parts! The Battle of Guagamela was well done, I thought.
@@ntgrg08 I like the Pallanx formation in that movie. Although I have no issues regarding homosexuality, the director made it like the character of Alexander. There is no ancient script that Alexander was homosexual, also a myth that homosexuality was prevalent in ancient greece. Its like they made Julius Ceasar homosexual. So right now, most of the world thinks of Alexander as a Homosexual. They should have prevented oliver stone from making a film about one of the greatest general king of the entire history and turning into a homosexual.
@@mitjed Oh yes, that's very true! That really seemed like the only message Stone tried to get across throughout the whole movie. Good ole revisionism never fails to taint history as we knew it!
Absolutely loving this series on Alexander. I would kill to see HBO develop a series about his life and exploits.
I'm sure you'd kill for a number of petty and idiotic reasons...
Totally......they'd probably screw it up though, in all honesty.
@@declanjones8888 theyd make half his generals asian and black lol
@@kingt0295 Lmao they would! These SJW's are the worst, hell they're not even liked in the Democratic party, I don't know how they get this far. For some reason nowadays people seem to have trouble differentiating Tokenism from actual Diversity.
I think the underrated reason why alexander is "the great" is that he's everywhere.
Enemy is launching a night ship attack, he leads a counter attack
His soldiers are being decimated by the persian king's right, he leads a cavalry to flank the attackers
Honestly a Hollywood blockbuster of this siege in the style of Troy and 300 wouldn't be amiss.
@Tony Kieu Theres an Alexander the Great tv series coming out at some point
I can't believe he had the idea of building a bridge on the sea and it actually worked at this time !!
Personally, I am from the Phoenician city of Sidon that was mentioned in this video. The details mentioned in this documentary are incredibly accurate. A project very well done and very well executed. All respect to the remarkable effort that has been put in this great work.
It's too bad they leave out the detail of the flying silver shields. You know exactly what I'm speaking of, judging from the image you choose to have as your profile.
@@jeffmorin5867 Don't judge! The profile I am using is just an icon from the well known strategy game called C&C Generals Zero Hour. So take it easy my friend.
@@raz999.9 i don't mean judge as in deciding a verdict. I mean it as youbwould use your judgment as in any case or act you would make or take. I meant that judging by the symbol you use, you would be versed in things others may not be. I meant no offence.
@@raz999.9 perhaps, I am mistaken since you say it was simply from a game. I may have been mistaken. And you may not know what it actually represents.
@@raz999.9 asking somebody not to use judgment is asking them to be mindless.
Alexander the Great is famous for his pitched battles, but i personally think he was even better at sieges. He had a wild imagination and boldness, aiming for the impossible and getting the results in even more astonishing ways than he did in battle. The Sieges of Tyre along with Alesia stand as colossal achievements of armies and their commanders defying the odds and prevailing.
He had the best engineers of the world in his disposal.
@asahi toki stay mad lol
@asahi toki The Achaemenid Empire was not as weak as you think. Keep in mind it was propagated by greek and roman historians who liked to paint themselves superior to other so-called barbarians. But when you look at Rome's situation, when it was at its peak it wasn't able to conquer Parthia the successor of the Achaemenids, and Parthia was far weaker than the Achaemenids were, and Rome was far stronger than The Macedonians were. I'm just saying a lot of things are taken for granted until you look at the motives of the historians who wrote them.
@asahi toki Yes they did. The whole concept of barbarian came from the greeks. They called everyone who didn't speak greek barbarian, and when they won the wars against persia they called them barbarians because they were a monarchy and the greeks considered them slaves to the king, while considering themselves freed citizens. They even called Macedonians barbarians because they were a monarchy, never seeing coming being conquered by them. I do have clues my friend, ancient history is my favorite topic. So don't casually insult people of not having clues. We do have a life outside the internet bubble you know.
@asahi toki No doubt they had respect, but after the persian wars, they really pushed hard the vicious propaganda against them as barbarians because of triumphalist culture that it inevitably became. You can see it in pottery, in philosophical and historical works from the classical era. And of course Alexander himself admired Cyrus and the persian kings, actually a little bit too much as it got him in trouble with the more conservative prejudiced members of his army and officers. These conservative greeks and macedonians proved a bigger headache for Alexander than the people he conquered. So we disagree on some issues, but generally i think we agree on our love of history. Take Care Bro.
Beautiful video ❤️🙏. Im a hard core fan of Alexander the Great. I felt like part of the siege myself.
Fan from India ❤️
I'm a fan ok Alexander too but hey I have a question for you are you a follower of the cult of Jesus?
Historical facts = By the way the Ancient Macedonians are Barbaros (= Not Greeks) BASICALLY. The Macedonian aristocracy just Hellenized (Adopted the Greek culture) their people (Macedonian), because the Hellenic culture was the most popular like the English of today.
Historical facts = Strabo (63 BC) tells us that Illyrians, Thracians, Bottians and Thesprotes shared the Macedonian territory (Tribes of Pelasgian origin 🇦🇱 ).
Source: (Strabo, VII, Frg .n°.11)
The Macedonians have just propagated the Hellenic culture and have adopted it little by little ...
The ancient authors called the Macedonians Barbaros/non-Greeks...
For example the great Thucydides...
Example : Thucydides 📜 (II, 80- IV, 126) who qualified of Barbaros (not Greek) the MACEDONIANS, Thesprotes, Molosses, Châones Atintanes, Paravaiens, Orestiens etc!
Moreover it is not the only one, far from there ....
Historical facts = The family of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
This last, according to the data, had a Macedonian father, but not his mother.
She was called Eurydice and came from the tribe of "Lyncestides".
Who was the grandmother on the side of the father of Alexander the Great?
The mother of Philip is the daughter of the daughter
Of Arrhabaeus, daughter of king Sirras, says Strabo.
Plutarch is very detailed on this subject.
He insists that although Eurydice is Illyrian (🇦🇱) and barbarian in every sense of the word, she was educated to help children.
He says very clearly that she is Illyrian, and barbaric in every way.
(Plutarch, De liberis educandis. p.69)
Lyncestides from where came the mother of Philip II, were a tribe which extended not far from the lake of Ohrid, somewhere in the area of Manastir where the ruins of one of their most important cities are today.
(Illyrian, no doubt. It is the last province that has a border with Macedonia)
As for whether it was an Illyrian tribe, this is clearly proven by ancient historians and geographers, including Titus Livy, Strabo, as well as Pliny who lists many in detail in the fourth book of the collection of 37 works entitled "Natural History", not to mention the great ancient geographer "Claudius Ptolemy" who also classifies the Lyncestrae among the Illyrian (🇦🇱) tribes .
And the later authors have the same attitude since on several occasions, they mention Eurydice, the mother of Philip II and the grandmother of Alexander, as being illyrian etc...
Here is what Demosthene says to us about Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great):
- "And yet, as regards Philip and his conduct, they
do not feel that, although he is not Greek and that he is not related at all to the Greeks..."
Source : (The Third Philippic)
By Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
Historical facts = Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.
But who was this woman who is said to have astonished the Macedonian king with her beauty ?
I will write based only on facts, that is, on the quotes of famous ancient authors, mainly Greek.
( For me there is one thing in history, which with the facts are not said ... )
According to Plutarch, Alexander was a descendant of Ajax through his father Neoptolemos and this is accepted without discussion.
According to Justin, Philip married Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molosses.
All the authors thus agree on the fact that Alexander the Great was the grandson of a Molossian.
For those who do not know this tribe (the Molossians), who were they, what territory did they occupy and how were they considered by the ancient authors ?
Let us stop for a moment to know more about the tribe of the Molossians from which the mother of Alexander the Great came.
To make it simple, the tribe of Molossians is in Epirus somewhere in the region of Chamerie on the back of Thesprotians who dominated the coastal part.
In addition to this, the Kaons who were in the south of present-day Albania and who constituted three of the great tribes of Epirus.
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others who composed Epirus like the Kaons, the Thesprotians, the Paraue, the Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or to a part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War that involved both actually in reality Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. Along with the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also ruled without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
( HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous Peloponnesian war in the 5th century B.C., are considered as barbarians, therefore not Greek!
( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what one called Epirus.
Among them are of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great !
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes as non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the Real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong links with the population of southern Italy!
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen author of the cycle "Corpus of Antiquity inscriptions" which says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him " .
Let us point out on this subject that the Albanians name themselves "Shqiptar", that is to say "sons or children of the eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter retroqued them one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle ...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable adversaries of the early days of ancient Rome).
Lorenzo Braccesi (Professor of Greek History at the University of Venice, Italy, in 1986) tells us:
- "Olympias was originally from Epirus, on the part of the father who was king of Epirus, on the part of the mother also and that Illyrian blood 🇦🇱 circulated in the family, there is no doubt. "
( 9,01- 9,15 . The true story of Alexander the great ... - Gjurmë Shqiptare )
That the Epirotes are or are not Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (current Albania) and religion.
Not only ancient authors like Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek) but also later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point out the same thing.
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and the sister .
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and sister of another well known Illyrian prince "Alexander the Molossus".
I believe that all or part of the strong character of Alexander comes exactly from his mother, from the house that also gave birth to Pyrrhus.
The powerful role of women in Illyrian society has been documented by many authors, including those who today identify themselves as Greeks, such as Athenaeus and Theompope.
Olympias' influence on her son Alexander was so great.
She believed that her son had divine blood and that he was born to rule the greatest kingdom of all time.
But the mother's family was not the only Illyrian family to which Alexander was affiliated, his link with the Illyrians was stronger than that!
@@ShahanshahShahin EVERY BEST ! ! ! Tatjana from MAKEDONIJA
Thank you for releasing this!!! Those who try to diminish Alexander’s greatness clearly dont see how masterful he was.
I think they undermine his genuine contributions to culture, art, exploration and travel, because he was Greek and a bit of a lad.
nothing about this was great.
@@saeedvazirian1620 it’s all fucking greatness
As a former member of the U.S. Navy Seabees,the application of this operation along with the difficulty and ultimate success of it would have been right up our alley.The engineering feats of Alexander and later Caeser were proper lessons in true "CAN DO" knowhow and spirit.
Love this channel and this series! Can’t wait for more videos on Alexander the Great’s conquests!
Historical facts = By the way the Ancient Macedonians are Barbaros (= Not Greeks) BASICALLY. The Macedonian aristocracy just Hellenized (Adopted the Greek culture) their people (Macedonian), because the Hellenic culture was the most popular like the English of today.
Historical facts = Strabo (63 BC) tells us that Illyrians, Thracians, Bottians and Thesprotes shared the Macedonian territory (Tribes of Pelasgian origin 🇦🇱 ).
Source: (Strabo, VII, Frg .n°.11)
The Macedonians have just propagated the Hellenic culture and have adopted it little by little ...
The ancient authors called the Macedonians Barbaros/non-Greeks...
For example the great Thucydides...
Example : Thucydides 📜 (II, 80- IV, 126) who qualified of Barbaros (not Greek) the MACEDONIANS, Thesprotes, Molosses, Châones Atintanes, Paravaiens, Orestiens etc!
Moreover it is not the only one, far from there ....
Historical facts = The family of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
This last, according to the data, had a Macedonian father, but not his mother.
She was called Eurydice and came from the tribe of "Lyncestides".
Who was the grandmother on the side of the father of Alexander the Great?
The mother of Philip is the daughter of the daughter
Of Arrhabaeus, daughter of king Sirras, says Strabo.
Plutarch is very detailed on this subject.
He insists that although Eurydice is Illyrian (🇦🇱) and barbarian in every sense of the word, she was educated to help children.
He says very clearly that she is Illyrian, and barbaric in every way.
(Plutarch, De liberis educandis. p.69)
Lyncestides from where came the mother of Philip II, were a tribe which extended not far from the lake of Ohrid, somewhere in the area of Manastir where the ruins of one of their most important cities are today.
(Illyrian, no doubt. It is the last province that has a border with Macedonia)
As for whether it was an Illyrian tribe, this is clearly proven by ancient historians and geographers, including Titus Livy, Strabo, as well as Pliny who lists many in detail in the fourth book of the collection of 37 works entitled "Natural History", not to mention the great ancient geographer "Claudius Ptolemy" who also classifies the Lyncestrae among the Illyrian (🇦🇱) tribes .
And the later authors have the same attitude since on several occasions, they mention Eurydice, the mother of Philip II and the grandmother of Alexander, as being illyrian etc...
Here is what Demosthene says to us about Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great):
- "And yet, as regards Philip and his conduct, they
do not feel that, although he is not Greek and that he is not related at all to the Greeks..."
Source : (The Third Philippic)
By Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
Historical facts = Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.
But who was this woman who is said to have astonished the Macedonian king with her beauty ?
I will write based only on facts, that is, on the quotes of famous ancient authors, mainly Greek.
( For me there is one thing in history, which with the facts are not said ... )
According to Plutarch, Alexander was a descendant of Ajax through his father Neoptolemos and this is accepted without discussion.
According to Justin, Philip married Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molosses.
All the authors thus agree on the fact that Alexander the Great was the grandson of a Molossian.
For those who do not know this tribe (the Molossians), who were they, what territory did they occupy and how were they considered by the ancient authors ?
Let us stop for a moment to know more about the tribe of the Molossians from which the mother of Alexander the Great came.
To make it simple, the tribe of Molossians is in Epirus somewhere in the region of Chamerie on the back of Thesprotians who dominated the coastal part.
In addition to this, the Kaons who were in the south of present-day Albania and who constituted three of the great tribes of Epirus.
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others who composed Epirus like the Kaons, the Thesprotians, the Paraue, the Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or to a part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War that involved both actually in reality Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. Along with the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also ruled without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
( HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous Peloponnesian war in the 5th century B.C., are considered as barbarians, therefore not Greek!
( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what one called Epirus.
Among them are of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great !
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes as non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the Real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong links with the population of southern Italy!
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen author of the cycle "Corpus of Antiquity inscriptions" which says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him " .
Let us point out on this subject that the Albanians name themselves "Shqiptar", that is to say "sons or children of the eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter retroqued them one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle ...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable adversaries of the early days of ancient Rome).
Lorenzo Braccesi (Professor of Greek History at the University of Venice, Italy, in 1986) tells us:
- "Olympias was originally from Epirus, on the part of the father who was king of Epirus, on the part of the mother also and that Illyrian blood 🇦🇱 circulated in the family, there is no doubt. "
( 9,01- 9,15 . The true story of Alexander the great ... - Gjurmë Shqiptare )
That the Epirotes are or are not Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (current Albania) and religion.
Not only ancient authors like Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek) but also later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point out the same thing.
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and the sister .
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and sister of another well known Illyrian prince "Alexander the Molossus".
I believe that all or part of the strong character of Alexander comes exactly from his mother, from the house that also gave birth to Pyrrhus.
The powerful role of women in Illyrian society has been documented by many authors, including those who today identify themselves as Greeks, such as Athenaeus and Theompope.
Olympias' influence on her son Alexander was so great.
She believed that her son had divine blood and that he was born to rule the greatest kingdom of all time.
But the mother's family was not the only Illyrian family to which Alexander was affiliated, his link with the Illyrians was stronger than that!
The incredible genius leadership of the Greatest Commander of all time!!! Best part I always admired of Alexander, was his mastery in psychology....so many thought that Tyre wasn't worth the trouble, but Alexander knew, it wasn't just Tyre that he won, but all the mediterranean islands, that instantly surrender to him after Tyre Felt.....With one stone, he killed many many birds
Alexander the Great is brilliant. He brought Greek culture to the whole world. Love this seize had always been my favourite of Alexander's tremendous exploits!
Alexander the devil
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Amazing how he connected an island to the mainland so well that it remains part of the mainland today.
@asahi toki hahaha hahaha
he didnt lost
@asahi toki he says hahaha because a simple google search proves you wrong
@asahi toki Go and read about the Greco - Bactrian Kingdom and stop spewing imaginary statements
@asahi toki The conquest of Afghanistan and North-Western India by Alexander actually broke the backbones of the kingdoms of those areas so severely that a boy aged less than 25 years conquered the North-Western part of the subcontinent within 2 years after Alexander left India and started to form a superpower state.
Alexander the Great had captured Stateira I, Queen of Persia as the wife of Darius III of Persia of the Achaemenid dynasty after the Battle of Issus in 333 BC. Her husband abandoned his entire family at the site as he fled from Alexander, including his mother Sisygambis and his daughters Stateira II and Drypetis.
In some accounts Alexander is said never to have met Stateira (Plut. Alex. 22.3), in virtually all he is praised for his sexual restraint with her, especially because of her great beauty. Yet, when she died, his public grief was extravagant (Curt. 4.21.4; Diod. 17.54.6; Plut. Alex. 30.1-3; Just. 11.12.6-8). Supposedly Darius himself wondered if Alexander's extreme grief signified that Alexander had, indeed, a personal and sexual relationship with her(Curt. 4.10.31-34).
Perhaps supporting Darius' supposed suspicions are the assertions of Plutarch (Alex. 30.1) and Justin (11.12.6) that Darius'wife died in childbirth, apparently about two years after she had last seen her husband. There is no way to be certain about the truth: Curtius (4.10.18) says she died of travel fatigue (Diod. 17.54.7 offers no cause of death) and the date of her death, even if it was in childbirth, may have been much earlier than that implied by the narratives. On the other hand, it is clear that suspicions were rife that Alexander, like traditional conquerors, had indeed had a sexual relationship with Stateira. Not only is there the implied date of her pregnancy, but Justin's apology for Alexander's grief(11.12.6-7) makes it obvious that people wondered.
Well Trojan War is an example of don't get caught screwing another man's wife.
The sexual restraint part implies that their relationship was consensual and not forced imho, but that's just my opinion.
sounds like a ton of horseshit. Nice context there (not). If you are chased by murderous terrorists, you'd run too, that's not abandonment. What was he supposed to do, willingly commit suicide? "There's no way to be certain of the truth" like your favourite murderer was a rapist and you'd go to any lengths to defend him, despite the fact that Darius had the last laugh and his descendants literally destroyed the greeks and reasserted the hegemony of Iran.
*grabs popcorn*
@@TheColombiano89 During Alexander's time, society do not think of homosexuality like we think today. The penetrator lol were seen as masculine, they are also penetrating women. The one being penetrated were seen as of lower status.
@@TheColombiano89 Who also had wives and offspring. Maybe bi?
Alexander turned the island of Tyre into a peninsula just because he can
My beloved city, I live 30 km north east of Tyre, I worked there for many years, very beautiful city with rich history, a lot of Roman ruins and an amazing beach..it really had a great impact on Midetrenean history through trade outposts one of which will become the great city of Carthage.
🇱🇧👋👋
C'mon guys, rule 1 of diplomacy: never kill the envoys!
Yeah, it always just seems mean to me
What did they do to you?
Fun Fact: The boiling sand that fell on the Macedonian soldiers forced said soldiers to remove their armor so the scalding hot grains could be shaken out and that allowed the cities defenders to pick them off with whatever projectiles they had at hand.
Historical facts = By the way the Ancient Macedonians are Barbaros (= Not Greeks) BASICALLY. The Macedonian aristocracy just Hellenized (Adopted the Greek culture) their people (Macedonian), because the Hellenic culture was the most popular like the English of today.
Historical facts = Strabo (63 BC) tells us that Illyrians, Thracians, Bottians and Thesprotes shared the Macedonian territory (Tribes of Pelasgian origin 🇦🇱 ).
Source: (Strabo, VII, Frg .n°.11)
The Macedonians have just propagated the Hellenic culture and have adopted it little by little ...
The ancient authors called the Macedonians Barbaros/non-Greeks...
For example the great Thucydides...
Example : Thucydides 📜 (II, 80- IV, 126) who qualified of Barbaros (not Greek) the MACEDONIANS, Thesprotes, Molosses, Châones Atintanes, Paravaiens, Orestiens etc!
Moreover it is not the only one, far from there ....
Historical facts = The family of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
This last, according to the data, had a Macedonian father, but not his mother.
She was called Eurydice and came from the tribe of "Lyncestides".
Who was the grandmother on the side of the father of Alexander the Great?
The mother of Philip is the daughter of the daughter
Of Arrhabaeus, daughter of king Sirras, says Strabo.
Plutarch is very detailed on this subject.
He insists that although Eurydice is Illyrian (🇦🇱) and barbarian in every sense of the word, she was educated to help children.
He says very clearly that she is Illyrian, and barbaric in every way.
(Plutarch, De liberis educandis. p.69)
Lyncestides from where came the mother of Philip II, were a tribe which extended not far from the lake of Ohrid, somewhere in the area of Manastir where the ruins of one of their most important cities are today.
(Illyrian, no doubt. It is the last province that has a border with Macedonia)
As for whether it was an Illyrian tribe, this is clearly proven by ancient historians and geographers, including Titus Livy, Strabo, as well as Pliny who lists many in detail in the fourth book of the collection of 37 works entitled "Natural History", not to mention the great ancient geographer "Claudius Ptolemy" who also classifies the Lyncestrae among the Illyrian (🇦🇱) tribes .
And the later authors have the same attitude since on several occasions, they mention Eurydice, the mother of Philip II and the grandmother of Alexander, as being illyrian etc...
Here is what Demosthene says to us about Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great):
- "And yet, as regards Philip and his conduct, they
do not feel that, although he is not Greek and that he is not related at all to the Greeks..."
Source : (The Third Philippic)
By Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
Historical facts = Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.
But who was this woman who is said to have astonished the Macedonian king with her beauty ?
I will write based only on facts, that is, on the quotes of famous ancient authors, mainly Greek.
( For me there is one thing in history, which with the facts are not said ... )
According to Plutarch, Alexander was a descendant of Ajax through his father Neoptolemos and this is accepted without discussion.
According to Justin, Philip married Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molosses.
All the authors thus agree on the fact that Alexander the Great was the grandson of a Molossian.
For those who do not know this tribe (the Molossians), who were they, what territory did they occupy and how were they considered by the ancient authors ?
Let us stop for a moment to know more about the tribe of the Molossians from which the mother of Alexander the Great came.
To make it simple, the tribe of Molossians is in Epirus somewhere in the region of Chamerie on the back of Thesprotians who dominated the coastal part.
In addition to this, the Kaons who were in the south of present-day Albania and who constituted three of the great tribes of Epirus.
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others who composed Epirus like the Kaons, the Thesprotians, the Paraue, the Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or to a part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War that involved both actually in reality Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. Along with the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also ruled without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
( HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous Peloponnesian war in the 5th century B.C., are considered as barbarians, therefore not Greek!
( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what one called Epirus.
Among them are of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great !
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes as non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the Real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong links with the population of southern Italy!
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen author of the cycle "Corpus of Antiquity inscriptions" which says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him " .
Let us point out on this subject that the Albanians name themselves "Shqiptar", that is to say "sons or children of the eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter retroqued them one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle ...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable adversaries of the early days of ancient Rome).
Lorenzo Braccesi (Professor of Greek History at the University of Venice, Italy, in 1986) tells us:
- "Olympias was originally from Epirus, on the part of the father who was king of Epirus, on the part of the mother also and that Illyrian blood 🇦🇱 circulated in the family, there is no doubt. "
( 9,01- 9,15 . The true story of Alexander the great ... - Gjurmë Shqiptare )
That the Epirotes are or are not Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (current Albania) and religion.
Not only ancient authors like Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek) but also later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point out the same thing.
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and the sister .
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and sister of another well known Illyrian prince "Alexander the Molossus".
I believe that all or part of the strong character of Alexander comes exactly from his mother, from the house that also gave birth to Pyrrhus.
The powerful role of women in Illyrian society has been documented by many authors, including those who today identify themselves as Greeks, such as Athenaeus and Theompope.
Olympias' influence on her son Alexander was so great.
She believed that her son had divine blood and that he was born to rule the greatest kingdom of all time.
But the mother's family was not the only Illyrian family to which Alexander was affiliated, his link with the Illyrians was stronger than that!
@@Universal.. there is a name for this mental condition for people repeating themselves,time after time again.
@@Universal.. hey don't you have to steal a Mercedes and drive it to albania😂leave history you are embarrassing yourself 😂😂
There is only one person that deserves the moniker "The Great" in history and it is Alexander
No love for Peter or Frederick the men who were single handedly responsible for the creation of the Russian and Prussian states?
Nah there are others who truly deserve that title and Cyrus is one of them without any doubt
@asahi toki and he still conquered it 😂.
That's also what makes him the greatest.
@@oconnor6456 Plus, the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms would go on to rule the area for centuries after.
@asahi toki He subdued the Malians and burnt their capital. No other peoples of the region ever dared to rebel since. Stop yammering, what you're saying is false.
I feel like that last bit was brushed over. When Alexander said he "would make island Tyre part of the mainland", he meant that literally. Storms caused sand to accumulate on the mole Alexander constructed and overtime Tyre was transformed into a peninsula, which it remains to this day.
I'm Lebanese, important story in history classes. Been waiting for a long time
I'm lebanese too, when I first heard this story in the history class I couldn't believe it because it sounded like it was taken from a fantasy story
@@charbelsalameh4594 Love Lebanon from Cyprus.
The siege of Tyre, alongside his victory at the Battle of Gaugamela, ranks as the most spectacular and awesome military achievement of Alexander the great career. As not only fighting the Tyrians as well as the elements of nature itself, Alexander managed to ably weather all storms thrown at him, both militarily and literally speaking and came up with a way to neutralise the enemies main advantages and allow for him to finally conquer the greatest fortress city of the Phocaea coast.
Tremendous video! Even now, 2500 years later, the exploits of Alexander the Great are still amazing. He had his flaws and could be savage and capricious to friend and foe alike but his tactical brilliance is perhaps without peer in the entire known history of warfare. I can't wait for more episodes! ⚔🙏⚔
Historical facts = By the way the Ancient Macedonians are Barbaros (= Not Greeks) BASICALLY. The Macedonian aristocracy just Hellenized (Adopted the Greek culture) their people (Macedonian), because the Hellenic culture was the most popular like the English of today.
Historical facts = Strabo (63 BC) tells us that Illyrians, Thracians, Bottians and Thesprotes shared the Macedonian territory (Tribes of Pelasgian origin 🇦🇱 ).
Source: (Strabo, VII, Frg .n°.11)
The Macedonians have just propagated the Hellenic culture and have adopted it little by little ...
The ancient authors called the Macedonians Barbaros/non-Greeks...
For example the great Thucydides...
Example : Thucydides 📜 (II, 80- IV, 126) who qualified of Barbaros (not Greek) the MACEDONIANS, Thesprotes, Molosses, Châones Atintanes, Paravaiens, Orestiens etc!
Moreover it is not the only one, far from there ....
Historical facts = The family of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
This last, according to the data, had a Macedonian father, but not his mother.
She was called Eurydice and came from the tribe of "Lyncestides".
Who was the grandmother on the side of the father of Alexander the Great?
The mother of Philip is the daughter of the daughter
Of Arrhabaeus, daughter of king Sirras, says Strabo.
Plutarch is very detailed on this subject.
He insists that although Eurydice is Illyrian (🇦🇱) and barbarian in every sense of the word, she was educated to help children.
He says very clearly that she is Illyrian, and barbaric in every way.
(Plutarch, De liberis educandis. p.69)
Lyncestides from where came the mother of Philip II, were a tribe which extended not far from the lake of Ohrid, somewhere in the area of Manastir where the ruins of one of their most important cities are today.
(Illyrian, no doubt. It is the last province that has a border with Macedonia)
As for whether it was an Illyrian tribe, this is clearly proven by ancient historians and geographers, including Titus Livy, Strabo, as well as Pliny who lists many in detail in the fourth book of the collection of 37 works entitled "Natural History", not to mention the great ancient geographer "Claudius Ptolemy" who also classifies the Lyncestrae among the Illyrian (🇦🇱) tribes .
And the later authors have the same attitude since on several occasions, they mention Eurydice, the mother of Philip II and the grandmother of Alexander, as being illyrian etc...
Here is what Demosthene says to us about Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great):
- "And yet, as regards Philip and his conduct, they
do not feel that, although he is not Greek and that he is not related at all to the Greeks..."
Source : (The Third Philippic)
By Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
Historical facts = Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.
But who was this woman who is said to have astonished the Macedonian king with her beauty ?
I will write based only on facts, that is, on the quotes of famous ancient authors, mainly Greek.
( For me there is one thing in history, which with the facts are not said ... )
According to Plutarch, Alexander was a descendant of Ajax through his father Neoptolemos and this is accepted without discussion.
According to Justin, Philip married Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molosses.
All the authors thus agree on the fact that Alexander the Great was the grandson of a Molossian.
For those who do not know this tribe (the Molossians), who were they, what territory did they occupy and how were they considered by the ancient authors ?
Let us stop for a moment to know more about the tribe of the Molossians from which the mother of Alexander the Great came.
To make it simple, the tribe of Molossians is in Epirus somewhere in the region of Chamerie on the back of Thesprotians who dominated the coastal part.
In addition to this, the Kaons who were in the south of present-day Albania and who constituted three of the great tribes of Epirus.
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others who composed Epirus like the Kaons, the Thesprotians, the Paraue, the Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or to a part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War that involved both actually in reality Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. Along with the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also ruled without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
( HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous Peloponnesian war in the 5th century B.C., are considered as barbarians, therefore not Greek!
( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what one called Epirus.
Among them are of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great !
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes as non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the Real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong links with the population of southern Italy!
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen author of the cycle "Corpus of Antiquity inscriptions" which says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him " .
Let us point out on this subject that the Albanians name themselves "Shqiptar", that is to say "sons or children of the eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter retroqued them one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle ...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable adversaries of the early days of ancient Rome).
Lorenzo Braccesi (Professor of Greek History at the University of Venice, Italy, in 1986) tells us:
- "Olympias was originally from Epirus, on the part of the father who was king of Epirus, on the part of the mother also and that Illyrian blood 🇦🇱 circulated in the family, there is no doubt. "
( 9,01- 9,15 . The true story of Alexander the great ... - Gjurmë Shqiptare )
That the Epirotes are or are not Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (current Albania) and religion.
Not only ancient authors like Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek) but also later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point out the same thing.
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and the sister .
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and sister of another well known Illyrian prince "Alexander the Molossus".
I believe that all or part of the strong character of Alexander comes exactly from his mother, from the house that also gave birth to Pyrrhus.
The powerful role of women in Illyrian society has been documented by many authors, including those who today identify themselves as Greeks, such as Athenaeus and Theompope.
Olympias' influence on her son Alexander was so great.
She believed that her son had divine blood and that he was born to rule the greatest kingdom of all time.
But the mother's family was not the only Illyrian family to which Alexander was affiliated, his link with the Illyrians was stronger than that!
@@Universal.. there is no "ancient greek".
Oto german make Greece before 190 years.
Years ago, before I'd ever heard of you guys, I remember fantasizing about creating videos similar to yours, only with a much more pronounced "action-movie feel" (while still not compromising historical accuracy in any way). This is not intended as a criticism of your work in the least. In these daydreams, I was of course not constrained by finite time and resources, as you guys are. Anyways, out of all battles in the entirety of history, the Siege of Tyre is the one I wanted to portray the most. Thank you for this. Seriously.
You should have and still can
Historical facts = By the way the Ancient Macedonians are Barbaros (= Not Greeks) BASICALLY. The Macedonian aristocracy just Hellenized (Adopted the Greek culture) their people (Macedonian), because the Hellenic culture was the most popular like the English of today.
Historical facts = Strabo (63 BC) tells us that Illyrians, Thracians, Bottians and Thesprotes shared the Macedonian territory (Tribes of Pelasgian origin 🇦🇱 ).
Source: (Strabo, VII, Frg .n°.11)
The Macedonians have just propagated the Hellenic culture and have adopted it little by little ...
The ancient authors called the Macedonians Barbaros/non-Greeks...
For example the great Thucydides...
Example : Thucydides 📜 (II, 80- IV, 126) who qualified of Barbaros (not Greek) the MACEDONIANS, Thesprotes, Molosses, Châones Atintanes, Paravaiens, Orestiens etc!
Moreover it is not the only one, far from there ....
Historical facts = Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.
But who was this woman who is said to have astonished the Macedonian king with her beauty ?
I will write based only on facts, that is, on the quotes of famous ancient authors, mainly Greek.
( For me there is one thing in history, which with the facts are not said ... )
According to Plutarch, Alexander was a descendant of Ajax through his father Neoptolemos and this is accepted without discussion.
According to Justin, Philip married Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molosses.
All the authors thus agree on the fact that Alexander the Great was the grandson of a Molossian.
For those who do not know this tribe (the Molossians), who were they, what territory did they occupy and how were they considered by the ancient authors ?
Let us stop for a moment to know more about the tribe of the Molossians from which the mother of Alexander the Great came.
To make it simple, the tribe of Molossians is in Epirus somewhere in the region of Chamerie on the back of Thesprotians who dominated the coastal part.
In addition to this, the Kaons who were in the south of present-day Albania and who constituted three of the great tribes of Epirus.
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others who composed Epirus like the Kaons, the Thesprotians, the Paraue, the Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or to a part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War that involved both actually in reality Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. Along with the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also ruled without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
( HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous Peloponnesian war in the 5th century B.C., are considered as barbarians, therefore not Greek!
( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what one called Epirus.
Among them are of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great !
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes as non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the Real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong links with the population of southern Italy!
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen author of the cycle "Corpus of Antiquity inscriptions" which says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him " .
Let us point out on this subject that the Albanians name themselves "Shqiptar", that is to say "sons or children of the eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter retroqued them one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle ...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable adversaries of the early days of ancient Rome).
Lorenzo Braccesi (Professor of Greek History at the University of Venice, Italy, in 1986) tells us:
- "Olympias was originally from Epirus, on the part of the father who was king of Epirus, on the part of the mother also and that Illyrian blood 🇦🇱 circulated in the family, there is no doubt. "
( 9,01- 9,15 . The true story of Alexander the great ... - Gjurmë Shqiptare )
That the Epirotes are or are not Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (current Albania) and religion.
Not only ancient authors like Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek) but also later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point out the same thing.
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and the sister .
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and sister of another well known Illyrian prince "Alexander the Molossus".
I believe that all or part of the strong character of Alexander comes exactly from his mother, from the house that also gave birth to Pyrrhus.
The powerful role of women in Illyrian society has been documented by many authors, including those who today identify themselves as Greeks, such as Athenaeus and Theompope.
Olympias' influence on her son Alexander was so great.
She believed that her son had divine blood and that he was born to rule the greatest kingdom of all time.
But the mother's family was not the only Illyrian family to which Alexander was affiliated, his link with the Illyrians was stronger than that!
Historical facts = The family of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
This last, according to the data, had a Macedonian father, but not his mother.
She was called Eurydice and came from the tribe of "Lyncestides".
Who was the grandmother on the side of the father of Alexander the Great?
The mother of Philip is the daughter of the daughter
Of Arrhabaeus, daughter of king Sirras, says Strabo.
Plutarch is very detailed on this subject.
He insists that although Eurydice is Illyrian (🇦🇱) and barbarian in every sense of the word, she was educated to help children.
He says very clearly that she is Illyrian, and barbaric in every way.
(Plutarch, De liberis educandis. p.69)
Lyncestides from where came the mother of Philip II, were a tribe which extended not far from the lake of Ohrid, somewhere in the area of Manastir where the ruins of one of their most important cities are today.
(Illyrian, no doubt. It is the last province that has a border with Macedonia)
As for whether it was an Illyrian tribe, this is clearly proven by ancient historians and geographers, including Titus Livy, Strabo, as well as Pliny who lists many in detail in the fourth book of the collection of 37 works entitled "Natural History", not to mention the great ancient geographer "Claudius Ptolemy" who also classifies the Lyncestrae among the Illyrian (🇦🇱) tribes .
And the later authors have the same attitude since on several occasions, they mention Eurydice, the mother of Philip II and the grandmother of Alexander, as being illyrian etc...
Here is what Demosthene says to us about Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great):
- "And yet, as regards Philip and his conduct, they
do not feel that, although he is not Greek and that he is not related at all to the Greeks..."
Source : (The Third Philippic)
By Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
I fantasize about making stuff like this into a TV Show. Just like you said, not compromising on historical accuracy and everything.
Once Alexander got 100 ships it was time to negotiate a surrender
This channel is STRAIGHT HEAT!!! 🔥🔥🔥 thank you so much for all of the effort, diligence and creativity
One of the best you've done in awhile, great video!
Probably my favorite historical siege. Thanks for this video, it's the first one I've seen from this channel so I made sure to subscribe :)
Modern tactics in ancient world, wow !
Great battle !
A great video as always! cant wait for Gaugamela
These are fantastic videos. Alexander the Great conquests are simply amazing and compelling. Thanks for doing videos of one of the greatest kings the world has ever known. I love how his tactics are still studied as West Point to this very day. Brilliant content!
"Herculian burst of industry" That's a nice line. I like this.
The dude ran up on two Arabs and wasted them. Too legendary
What truly amazing is that Alexander was able to achieve all these genius military tactics before the age of 25 ...
Woooo incredible! I've never heard tell of that particular siege! Thanks for sharing! Informative and entertainingly well told as usual. Keep em coming! :)
This is the Alexander video I have been waiting for 👍🏻
I actually didn't know that Alexander's causeway became permanent and linked the land. I've even watched about the Siege of Tyre before, but that is quite fascinating.
I think this is still us Cypriots proudest military moment in History, we supplied ships and men to help Alexander defeat Tyre
More on Alexander’s conquest is very much appreciated. I can never get enough of any content involving It.
I am speechless with the Quality, Detailed Info, Neutral & Balanced narrative, and Soothing Voice & Music. Thank you Kings and Generals.
It's interesting that you're doing this series around the same time as the Northern War series. It really shows the similarities between Alexander and Christian XII, especially the rejection of excellent peace terms in pursuit of total victory. It's amazing how easily the story of one could have been the others'.
The difference between the two is that Alexander died before he fucked up.
The best way for great people to remain great would be to die after their greatest achievements.
Christian XII….
Historical facts = By the way the Ancient Macedonians are Barbaros (= Not Greeks) BASICALLY. The Macedonian aristocracy just Hellenized (Adopted the Greek culture) their people (Macedonian), because the Hellenic culture was the most popular like the English of today.
Historical facts = Strabo (63 BC) tells us that Illyrians, Thracians, Bottians and Thesprotes shared the Macedonian territory (Tribes of Pelasgian origin 🇦🇱 ).
Source: (Strabo, VII, Frg .n°.11)
The Macedonians have just propagated the Hellenic culture and have adopted it little by little ...
The ancient authors called the Macedonians Barbaros/non-Greeks...
For example the great Thucydides...
Example : Thucydides 📜 (II, 80- IV, 126) who qualified of Barbaros (not Greek) the MACEDONIANS, Thesprotes, Molosses, Châones Atintanes, Paravaiens, Orestiens etc!
Moreover it is not the only one, far from there ....
Historical facts = The family of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
This last, according to the data, had a Macedonian father, but not his mother.
She was called Eurydice and came from the tribe of "Lyncestides".
Who was the grandmother on the side of the father of Alexander the Great?
The mother of Philip is the daughter of the daughter
Of Arrhabaeus, daughter of king Sirras, says Strabo.
Plutarch is very detailed on this subject.
He insists that although Eurydice is Illyrian (🇦🇱) and barbarian in every sense of the word, she was educated to help children.
He says very clearly that she is Illyrian, and barbaric in every way.
(Plutarch, De liberis educandis. p.69)
Lyncestides from where came the mother of Philip II, were a tribe which extended not far from the lake of Ohrid, somewhere in the area of Manastir where the ruins of one of their most important cities are today.
(Illyrian, no doubt. It is the last province that has a border with Macedonia)
As for whether it was an Illyrian tribe, this is clearly proven by ancient historians and geographers, including Titus Livy, Strabo, as well as Pliny who lists many in detail in the fourth book of the collection of 37 works entitled "Natural History", not to mention the great ancient geographer "Claudius Ptolemy" who also classifies the Lyncestrae among the Illyrian (🇦🇱) tribes .
And the later authors have the same attitude since on several occasions, they mention Eurydice, the mother of Philip II and the grandmother of Alexander, as being illyrian etc...
Here is what Demosthene says to us about Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great):
- "And yet, as regards Philip and his conduct, they
do not feel that, although he is not Greek and that he is not related at all to the Greeks..."
Source : (The Third Philippic)
By Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
Historical facts = Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.
But who was this woman who is said to have astonished the Macedonian king with her beauty ?
I will write based only on facts, that is, on the quotes of famous ancient authors, mainly Greek.
( For me there is one thing in history, which with the facts are not said ... )
According to Plutarch, Alexander was a descendant of Ajax through his father Neoptolemos and this is accepted without discussion.
According to Justin, Philip married Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molosses.
All the authors thus agree on the fact that Alexander the Great was the grandson of a Molossian.
For those who do not know this tribe (the Molossians), who were they, what territory did they occupy and how were they considered by the ancient authors ?
Let us stop for a moment to know more about the tribe of the Molossians from which the mother of Alexander the Great came.
To make it simple, the tribe of Molossians is in Epirus somewhere in the region of Chamerie on the back of Thesprotians who dominated the coastal part.
In addition to this, the Kaons who were in the south of present-day Albania and who constituted three of the great tribes of Epirus.
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others who composed Epirus like the Kaons, the Thesprotians, the Paraue, the Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or to a part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War that involved both actually in reality Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. Along with the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also ruled without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
( HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous Peloponnesian war in the 5th century B.C., are considered as barbarians, therefore not Greek!
( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what one called Epirus.
Among them are of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great !
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes as non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the Real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong links with the population of southern Italy!
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen author of the cycle "Corpus of Antiquity inscriptions" which says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him " .
Let us point out on this subject that the Albanians name themselves "Shqiptar", that is to say "sons or children of the eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter retroqued them one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle ...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable adversaries of the early days of ancient Rome).
Lorenzo Braccesi (Professor of Greek History at the University of Venice, Italy, in 1986) tells us:
- "Olympias was originally from Epirus, on the part of the father who was king of Epirus, on the part of the mother also and that Illyrian blood 🇦🇱 circulated in the family, there is no doubt. "
( 9,01- 9,15 . The true story of Alexander the great ... - Gjurmë Shqiptare )
That the Epirotes are or are not Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (current Albania) and religion.
Not only ancient authors like Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek) but also later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point out the same thing.
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and the sister .
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and sister of another well known Illyrian prince "Alexander the Molossus".
I believe that all or part of the strong character of Alexander comes exactly from his mother, from the house that also gave birth to Pyrrhus.
The powerful role of women in Illyrian society has been documented by many authors, including those who today identify themselves as Greeks, such as Athenaeus and Theompope.
Olympias' influence on her son Alexander was so great.
She believed that her son had divine blood and that he was born to rule the greatest kingdom of all time.
But the mother's family was not the only Illyrian family to which Alexander was affiliated, his link with the Illyrians was stronger than that!
Would be great to see a video on Alexander I of Epirus - Alexander the Great’s relative (cousin or uncle I think?) who, seeing Alexander’s successes in the east in 334 BC, decided to set off on his own WESTERN campaigns in Italy - lost a major battle and died in 331 BC.
Also the campaigns to the north of Alexander the Great led by his other generals, and maybe a video on Alexander’s warrior sister: Cynane
To be more specific, Alexander's uncle/brother-in-law (Alexander I of Epirus married his niece Cleopatra, Alexander's sister, and himself was the brother of Alexander's mother Olympias.
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Historical facts = By the way the Ancient Macedonians are Barbaros (= Not Greeks) BASICALLY. The Macedonian aristocracy just Hellenized (Adopted the Greek culture) their people (Macedonian), because the Hellenic culture was the most popular like the English of today.
Historical facts = Strabo (63 BC) tells us that Illyrians, Thracians, Bottians and Thesprotes shared the Macedonian territory (Tribes of Pelasgian origin 🇦🇱 ).
Source: (Strabo, VII, Frg .n°.11)
The Macedonians have just propagated the Hellenic culture and have adopted it little by little ...
The ancient authors called the Macedonians Barbaros/non-Greeks...
For example the great Thucydides...
Example : Thucydides 📜 (II, 80- IV, 126) who qualified of Barbaros (not Greek) the MACEDONIANS, Thesprotes, Molosses, Châones Atintanes, Paravaiens, Orestiens etc!
Moreover it is not the only one, far from there ....
Historical facts = Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.
But who was this woman who is said to have astonished the Macedonian king with her beauty ?
I will write based only on facts, that is, on the quotes of famous ancient authors, mainly Greek.
( For me there is one thing in history, which with the facts are not said ... )
According to Plutarch, Alexander was a descendant of Ajax through his father Neoptolemos and this is accepted without discussion.
According to Justin, Philip married Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molosses.
All the authors thus agree on the fact that Alexander the Great was the grandson of a Molossian.
For those who do not know this tribe (the Molossians), who were they, what territory did they occupy and how were they considered by the ancient authors ?
Let us stop for a moment to know more about the tribe of the Molossians from which the mother of Alexander the Great came.
To make it simple, the tribe of Molossians is in Epirus somewhere in the region of Chamerie on the back of Thesprotians who dominated the coastal part.
In addition to this, the Kaons who were in the south of present-day Albania and who constituted three of the great tribes of Epirus.
Historically, tribes like the Molossians or others who composed Epirus like the Kaons, the Thesprotians, the Paraue, the Antintans and others, are historically linked to the Illyrian (🇦🇱) culture or to a part of it.
As Thucydides tells us about the events of the Peloponnesian War that involved both actually in reality Illyrians and Illyria itself, these tribes were commonly considered barbarian (non-Greek) tribes.
Thucydides: - "Among the barbarians there were about 1,000 Kaons who ruled without a king. Along with the Kaons, the Thesprotians also participated and were also ruled without a king. There were also the MOLOSSIANS, the Atintants and the Paraues.
( HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR )
All these tribes, mentioned by the historian of Athenian origin Thucydides for their participation in the famous Peloponnesian war in the 5th century B.C., are considered as barbarians, therefore not Greek!
( Thucydides II, 80- IV, 126 )
The Kaons, the Thesprotians of Chamerie, the Arintans and the Parauets constitute the backbone of what one called Epirus.
Among them are of course the Molossians where are the roots of the family of the mother of Alexander the Great !
And Thucydides is not the only source which defines the Epirotes as non-Greeks.
There are many others!
According to the encyclopedia Basic Antiquity, composed of 86 volumes... Pauly Wissowa the Real "Encyclopedia Alterumswissenschaft" says that the Epirotes are of Illyrian origin 🇦🇱 and have strong links with the population of southern Italy!
More concise on the issue, the only Nobel Prize in history 🎓 is none other than Theodor Mommsen author of the cycle "Corpus of Antiquity inscriptions" which says that: - "the brave Epirotes, the Albanians 🇦🇱 of antiquity supported with traditional loyalty the young and brave Pyrrhus or "the Eagle" as they called him " .
Let us point out on this subject that the Albanians name themselves "Shqiptar", that is to say "sons or children of the eagle".
The soldiers of Pyrrhus (3rd century BC / Epirote King), called their King "the Eagle" and that the latter retroqued them one day that they were his "children", so the Albanians are the children of the Eagle ...
"Shqiptar = child of the Eagle .... " .
(Pyrrhus was the cousin of Alexander the Great, of the Molossian tribe and himself an ambitious conqueror, Pyrrhus is one of the most formidable adversaries of the early days of ancient Rome).
Lorenzo Braccesi (Professor of Greek History at the University of Venice, Italy, in 1986) tells us:
- "Olympias was originally from Epirus, on the part of the father who was king of Epirus, on the part of the mother also and that Illyrian blood 🇦🇱 circulated in the family, there is no doubt. "
( 9,01- 9,15 . The true story of Alexander the great ... - Gjurmë Shqiptare )
That the Epirotes are or are not Illyrians is a discussion that, from an archaeological point of view, is resolved.
The Epirotes and the Illyrians have the same culture, if we consider the Iron Age, the use of tombs, fortifications with several rows of walls, their material culture, the shape of the pots or the ornaments which are identical to those of Korça (current Albania) and religion.
Not only ancient authors like Thucydides, Strabo and others have called the Epirotic tribes barbarians (non-Greek) but also later serious publications based on documents and archaeological findings point out the same thing.
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and the sister .
The Molosses, were one of the Illyrian tribes of Epirus from where came the mother of Alexander the Great Olympias daughter of the king and sister of another well known Illyrian prince "Alexander the Molossus".
I believe that all or part of the strong character of Alexander comes exactly from his mother, from the house that also gave birth to Pyrrhus.
The powerful role of women in Illyrian society has been documented by many authors, including those who today identify themselves as Greeks, such as Athenaeus and Theompope.
Olympias' influence on her son Alexander was so great.
She believed that her son had divine blood and that he was born to rule the greatest kingdom of all time.
But the mother's family was not the only Illyrian family to which Alexander was affiliated, his link with the Illyrians was stronger than that!
Historical facts = The family of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
This last, according to the data, had a Macedonian father, but not his mother.
She was called Eurydice and came from the tribe of "Lyncestides".
Who was the grandmother on the side of the father of Alexander the Great?
The mother of Philip is the daughter of the daughter
Of Arrhabaeus, daughter of king Sirras, says Strabo.
Plutarch is very detailed on this subject.
He insists that although Eurydice is Illyrian (🇦🇱) and barbarian in every sense of the word, she was educated to help children.
He says very clearly that she is Illyrian, and barbaric in every way.
(Plutarch, De liberis educandis. p.69)
Lyncestides from where came the mother of Philip II, were a tribe which extended not far from the lake of Ohrid, somewhere in the area of Manastir where the ruins of one of their most important cities are today.
(Illyrian, no doubt. It is the last province that has a border with Macedonia)
As for whether it was an Illyrian tribe, this is clearly proven by ancient historians and geographers, including Titus Livy, Strabo, as well as Pliny who lists many in detail in the fourth book of the collection of 37 works entitled "Natural History", not to mention the great ancient geographer "Claudius Ptolemy" who also classifies the Lyncestrae among the Illyrian (🇦🇱) tribes .
And the later authors have the same attitude since on several occasions, they mention Eurydice, the mother of Philip II and the grandmother of Alexander, as being illyrian etc...
Here is what Demosthene says to us about Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great):
- "And yet, as regards Philip and his conduct, they
do not feel that, although he is not Greek and that he is not related at all to the Greeks..."
Source : (The Third Philippic)
By Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
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Thank you for making a series on Alexander's conquests. It was truly an untapped goldmine of military history. Although other content creators have covered it, I can always count on kings and generals to go in depth with amazing attention to detail.
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Indeed it is... what's more is that this was actually prophesied in the Bible to happen like this! Ezekiel 26:12 says "they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise; and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses; and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the waters".
I would have loved to have seen some of these ancient fabled cities, like something from a dream.
The greatest siege ever. Can’t wait for more!
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That's interesting how the Sidonians fought on the side of Alexander but helped people in the city escape.. Seems like that would have been a weird sight for those people.
Wonderful video. Look forward to the coming videos.
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Please do all the punic wars one day!
Its amazing how people now live on this land.... I mean who needs fiction when non fiction is just as amazing...
What an incredible story.
I'm reading Arrian's account of the great Alexander and this video has been very helpful with visuals on the account given. Nice work!