Ptolemy
08-02-2006, 04:10 PM
Its really interesting that the uncommon name Alexandros is found in ancient Greece in extremely rare cases among people who are considered Dorians. A huge number of modern historians declare their convictions that ancient Macedonians were a Dorian tribe. I was searching through names of ancient Greeks in antiquity and found that Alexandros I the Philhellene wasnt the first one to bear that name.
According to Eusebius, first one in the greek world, was the king Alexandros of Corinth who was the 10th king of this city and he must have lived around the late 9th c. BC. (in the same era of the first Argead Macedonian king as Eusebius informs us)
According to Eusebius Chr.: "anno tertio regni Alexandri regis Korinthiorum Macedonibus regnat Primus"
Its also important to add that the Bacchiad Kings of Corinth were considered ALSO, descendants of Heracles (Heraclides) as the Argead Macedonian Kings!!!!
Another addition to the Dorian ancestry of Macedonians was the fact that the name Archelaos was also a Doric name. Archelaos, except the well known Macedonian kings, was also the name of the 7th Spartan king Archelaos -another Dorian - who came in the throne of Sparti in 886 BC, long before the establishment of the Macedonian state. No need to add that Spartan kings were also Heraclides!!! ;)
According to Eusebius, first one in the greek world, was the king Alexandros of Corinth who was the 10th king of this city and he must have lived around the late 9th c. BC. (in the same era of the first Argead Macedonian king as Eusebius informs us)
According to Eusebius Chr.: "anno tertio regni Alexandri regis Korinthiorum Macedonibus regnat Primus"
Its also important to add that the Bacchiad Kings of Corinth were considered ALSO, descendants of Heracles (Heraclides) as the Argead Macedonian Kings!!!!
Another addition to the Dorian ancestry of Macedonians was the fact that the name Archelaos was also a Doric name. Archelaos, except the well known Macedonian kings, was also the name of the 7th Spartan king Archelaos -another Dorian - who came in the throne of Sparti in 886 BC, long before the establishment of the Macedonian state. No need to add that Spartan kings were also Heraclides!!! ;)