Talk:Macedonians/@comment-49.195.32.192-20180426094857

The Macedonians were a combination of barbarian and Greek cultures in Phillips II time. All of their borders were with barbarian kingtoms connected via marriage, excpet the southern borders connected to the Greek limits of influence. Olympia, Alexanders mother, was a barbarian from a particularly fiece people, Olympia was not her original name, it was posibly changed to sound more Greek. Don't confuse barbarian with simple, the Macedonians had amazing technology and art, superior metalurgy than the traditional Greeks, though no writing in Phillips time. Phillip was educated in Greece all be it as a captive. Phillip actively pursued Greek style education for his son Alexander and the aristocratic youth of Alexanders age. Although the Macedonians saw themselves as Greek, spoke it and worshiped the Gods, they were not really accepted as Greek by the Greeks untill they were too powerful not to be. Once Phillip became Hegemon of Greece, Supreme Leader, a tasteful title no doubt due to his Greek love of Democracy, he was going to lead a combined army into Asia. Alexander ended up leading the combined Army of the Greeks and Macedonians.