Ptolemy
06-09-2006, 08:24 AM
Around 143/142 BC, Damon the Macedonian, son of Nicanor, from the city of Thessalonica, paid with his own money and erected a statue of copper in Olympia, honouring Q.Caecilius Metellus. In the statue's inscription it is written as motives of this honouring the virtue of the honoured and the sympathetic actions of Quintus Metellus to "Macedonians and the rest of Greeks". What is more interesting is that the statue was erected from Damon the Macedonian in Olympia, the most important Hellenic centre of that era and it reveals Macedonians saw themselves as Greeks. :lol:
The original language of the inscription is:
διατελεί εις τε αυτόν και την πατρίδα και τους λοιπούς μακεδόνας και τους άλλους Έλληνας
The original language of the inscription is:
διατελεί εις τε αυτόν και την πατρίδα και τους λοιπούς μακεδόνας και τους άλλους Έλληνας