Talk:Macedonians/@comment-120.146.92.63-20150318091256/@comment-2A02:587:3011:8D00:19CA:B32:B7A8:29F-20190626031702

September 1, 2018, A FANDOM user said that Alexander I denied entry: "In Hdt. 5.22.2 we see that Alexander I of Macedon was denied entry into the Olympic race on the grounds that he was a foreigner, and this is despite the fact that he had a Greek name."

In the actual Hdt. 5.22.2 text, we see that Alexander I was granted entry: Now that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, as they themselves say, I myself chance to know and will prove it in the later part of my history. Furthermore, the Hellenodicae who manage the contest at Olympia determined that it is so, for when Alexander chose to contend and entered the lists for that purpose, the Greeks who were to run against him wanted to bar him from the race, saying that the contest should be for Greeks and not for foreigners. Alexander, however, proving himself to be an Argive, was judged to be a Greek.

Nuff said. What can someone expect from a buy who calls Herodotus "a mouthpiece for pro-hellenic propaganda"? Probably to read his propaganda...