akritas
09-07-2006, 09:51 AM
The systematic counterfeiting of the history of Macedonia by the Skopjans since 1944 and their attempt to monopolize the "Macedonia" name were considered by the Hellenic people as absurd and unworthy of their attention.
Stefou was one from the Skopjan that use lies in order to expose his propaganda. He uses the net name Risto Stefov but sell books with the name Chris Stefou. This article is an answer in his series book that supposed show Greek lies, produces nationalism and interism and of course has many historical un-accuracies and propaganda guide lines and can you read here
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RMDigest/message/6288 (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RMDigest/message/6288)
Chris Stefou(aka Risto Stefov) you forget something critical as about the Hellenic ancient history. Hellas was not only the Macedonians. Were the Ionians, the Spartans, the Atheneans and of course the Thebeans.
Phillip as is known was hostage under the Epaminondas rule.A hostage the teached and took the all known Greek education.He learned from the Epaminondas this that the all Greeks had as dream. The Greek Revenge against Persians.
Chris Stefou(aka Risto Stefov) the Macedonian king just fulfilment of his mentor Thebean Epaminondas dream!!!
Lewis Vance Cummings in "Alexander the Great" at the page 20 mention.....
Philip had been a boy of thirteen when he was taken as a hostage to Thebes. He had been well treated, and placed in charge of Epaminondas, perhaps the greatest Greek of that day. The Thcban was a man of culture, an orator of the first caliber, a politician of consummate shrewdness and ability, a strategist and general with the driving power of a Spartan. By sheer force of domineering will power he had won from the people of Thebes their blind obedience and made himself supreme in the city. He had tried, fruitlessly, largely by diplomatic chicane, even to the extent of intriguing with the Persian king and even sending Pelopidas to dance attendance upon the foreign monarch, to force Theban ascendancy in matters pertaining to the policies of all Greece
It was later said that Epaminondas' intentions were the same as those of Jason, ultimately to use his ascendancy to force unity of Greece for the purpose of attacking the Persian Empire. But he had run into the stone wall of insular hatred that kept all Greeks in constant bitter turmoil. The Greek city-states, jealous of their individual prerogatives and governed by frequently changed personalities, would never agree to genuine co-operation, or, having agreed, would break any agreement to gain an advantage or upon the slightest fancied insult. They had become politically incapable of forming a lasting confederation for mutual defense or betterment, and were individually too weak to defend themselves in the face of any logical combination or alliance.
Epaminondas had failed in his dream, but the scope of his vision, mental resources, military prowess, and diplomatic cleverness had fired young Philip's imagination.
Chris Stefou(aka Risto Stefov) you forget to mention that the major Greek formation was the phalanx. That can be defined as a body of heavy infantry drawn up in close rectangular formation at least several ranks deep. This usage of the term is found as early as Homer, but its later usage to denote a massed military formation became common only in the Macedonian period. The heavily armed infantryman himself is called a hoplite, from the name of his shield (hoplon). His equipment followed a fairly standardized pattern. Macedonians ,particuraly Philip, his genius for organization and tactical innovation is evidenced in his adoption of the wedge formation for cavalry and the command structure he developed for his heavy infantry or the known Macedonian phalanx. What in the end resulted was the culmination of a trend that had shown itself increasingly in Greek warfare in the course of the 4th cent: a growing complexity in the composition of military forces now made up of contingents fighting with diverse types of equipment and carrying out specialized tasks. Before Philip no Greek state had the capability of doing this on any large scale. Philip as Greek adopted the Greek warfare and improved it.
Chris Stefou(aka Risto Stefov) you mention the battle of the Chaeronia.Yoou Gandeto forget to inform you what was the writer that mention the case sister of Theogenes.Was the Diodoros Siceliotis that mention in his 16th book quote 95…..
Consider this king , that started his monarchy with the worst conditions and conquer the biggest Hellenic monarchy , raised his hegemony not with the weapons heroism, but with skilful handlings and diplomacy.
Chris Stefou(aka Risto Stefov) of course as Skopjan propagandist you didn’t forget the Demosthenis. J.B Burry mention as about this case….
Demosthenes used his brilliant gift of speech in the service of his country; he used it unscrupulously according to his light--the light of a purblind patriotism. He could take a lofty tone; he professed to regard Philip as a barbarian threatening Hellas and her gods. There is no need to show that, judged from the point of view of the history of the, world, his policy was retrograde and retarding, he cannot fairly criticise him either for not having seen, even as fully as Isocrates, that the day for the expansion of Greece had come, and that no existing Greek commonwealth was competent to conduct that expansion; or if he did vaguely see it, for having looked the other way. All he saw, or at least all he cared, was that the increase of Macedonia meant the curtailment of Athens; and his political life was one long agitation against Macedonia's resistless advance
And now the question that point out you Chris Stefou (aka Risto Stefov)
One from the most important archaeological found in Vergina was the Ivory Shield that was found in pieces in Philip's tomp.
The arduous process of restoration took several years.It is a unique masterpiece of the 4th century.
Give your attention in the the external ring of the Philips Shield and the Symbol of the Hellenism, the known Hellenic Key.
http://www.macedoniaontheweb.com/forum/archeological-artifactual-macedonian-history/1013-philip-ivory-shield.html
Why dear Chris Stefou (aka Risto Stefov) propagandist a Macedonian King that was against(according your lies) in Greek Unity used a Hellenic Symbol in his Macedonian Royal shield?:)
Stefou was one from the Skopjan that use lies in order to expose his propaganda. He uses the net name Risto Stefov but sell books with the name Chris Stefou. This article is an answer in his series book that supposed show Greek lies, produces nationalism and interism and of course has many historical un-accuracies and propaganda guide lines and can you read here
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RMDigest/message/6288 (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RMDigest/message/6288)
Chris Stefou(aka Risto Stefov) you forget something critical as about the Hellenic ancient history. Hellas was not only the Macedonians. Were the Ionians, the Spartans, the Atheneans and of course the Thebeans.
Phillip as is known was hostage under the Epaminondas rule.A hostage the teached and took the all known Greek education.He learned from the Epaminondas this that the all Greeks had as dream. The Greek Revenge against Persians.
Chris Stefou(aka Risto Stefov) the Macedonian king just fulfilment of his mentor Thebean Epaminondas dream!!!
Lewis Vance Cummings in "Alexander the Great" at the page 20 mention.....
Philip had been a boy of thirteen when he was taken as a hostage to Thebes. He had been well treated, and placed in charge of Epaminondas, perhaps the greatest Greek of that day. The Thcban was a man of culture, an orator of the first caliber, a politician of consummate shrewdness and ability, a strategist and general with the driving power of a Spartan. By sheer force of domineering will power he had won from the people of Thebes their blind obedience and made himself supreme in the city. He had tried, fruitlessly, largely by diplomatic chicane, even to the extent of intriguing with the Persian king and even sending Pelopidas to dance attendance upon the foreign monarch, to force Theban ascendancy in matters pertaining to the policies of all Greece
It was later said that Epaminondas' intentions were the same as those of Jason, ultimately to use his ascendancy to force unity of Greece for the purpose of attacking the Persian Empire. But he had run into the stone wall of insular hatred that kept all Greeks in constant bitter turmoil. The Greek city-states, jealous of their individual prerogatives and governed by frequently changed personalities, would never agree to genuine co-operation, or, having agreed, would break any agreement to gain an advantage or upon the slightest fancied insult. They had become politically incapable of forming a lasting confederation for mutual defense or betterment, and were individually too weak to defend themselves in the face of any logical combination or alliance.
Epaminondas had failed in his dream, but the scope of his vision, mental resources, military prowess, and diplomatic cleverness had fired young Philip's imagination.
Chris Stefou(aka Risto Stefov) you forget to mention that the major Greek formation was the phalanx. That can be defined as a body of heavy infantry drawn up in close rectangular formation at least several ranks deep. This usage of the term is found as early as Homer, but its later usage to denote a massed military formation became common only in the Macedonian period. The heavily armed infantryman himself is called a hoplite, from the name of his shield (hoplon). His equipment followed a fairly standardized pattern. Macedonians ,particuraly Philip, his genius for organization and tactical innovation is evidenced in his adoption of the wedge formation for cavalry and the command structure he developed for his heavy infantry or the known Macedonian phalanx. What in the end resulted was the culmination of a trend that had shown itself increasingly in Greek warfare in the course of the 4th cent: a growing complexity in the composition of military forces now made up of contingents fighting with diverse types of equipment and carrying out specialized tasks. Before Philip no Greek state had the capability of doing this on any large scale. Philip as Greek adopted the Greek warfare and improved it.
Chris Stefou(aka Risto Stefov) you mention the battle of the Chaeronia.Yoou Gandeto forget to inform you what was the writer that mention the case sister of Theogenes.Was the Diodoros Siceliotis that mention in his 16th book quote 95…..
Consider this king , that started his monarchy with the worst conditions and conquer the biggest Hellenic monarchy , raised his hegemony not with the weapons heroism, but with skilful handlings and diplomacy.
Chris Stefou(aka Risto Stefov) of course as Skopjan propagandist you didn’t forget the Demosthenis. J.B Burry mention as about this case….
Demosthenes used his brilliant gift of speech in the service of his country; he used it unscrupulously according to his light--the light of a purblind patriotism. He could take a lofty tone; he professed to regard Philip as a barbarian threatening Hellas and her gods. There is no need to show that, judged from the point of view of the history of the, world, his policy was retrograde and retarding, he cannot fairly criticise him either for not having seen, even as fully as Isocrates, that the day for the expansion of Greece had come, and that no existing Greek commonwealth was competent to conduct that expansion; or if he did vaguely see it, for having looked the other way. All he saw, or at least all he cared, was that the increase of Macedonia meant the curtailment of Athens; and his political life was one long agitation against Macedonia's resistless advance
And now the question that point out you Chris Stefou (aka Risto Stefov)
One from the most important archaeological found in Vergina was the Ivory Shield that was found in pieces in Philip's tomp.
The arduous process of restoration took several years.It is a unique masterpiece of the 4th century.
Give your attention in the the external ring of the Philips Shield and the Symbol of the Hellenism, the known Hellenic Key.
http://www.macedoniaontheweb.com/forum/archeological-artifactual-macedonian-history/1013-philip-ivory-shield.html
Why dear Chris Stefou (aka Risto Stefov) propagandist a Macedonian King that was against(according your lies) in Greek Unity used a Hellenic Symbol in his Macedonian Royal shield?:)