Ancient Macedonians
The Macedonians (Greek: Μακεδόνες, Makedónes) were an ancient tribe which inhabited the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Axius, north of Mount Olympus in Greece, gradually expanded its dominion in the region and established the kingdom of Macedon. Their precise ethnic origin is not known for certain, but historians generally agree that, whether they originally spoke a Greek dialect or a language sibling to Greek, and if they were not ultimately of Greek origin, they had been fully absorbed into Hellenism by the 5th century BC,[1] and came to belong to the Koine Greek-speaking population in the Hellenistic period.[2] The Macedonian royal family itself, known as the Argead dynasty, claimed Greek descent from the Ancient Greek city of Argos in the Peloponnese.[3]
Origins
Ancient sources
In Greek mythology, Makednos was the mythical progenitor and eponymous ancestor of the Macedonians. According to Hesiod's Catalogue of Women, Makednos was the son of Zeus and Thyia, the daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha, and brother of Magnes.[4] On the other hand, Hellanicus of Lesbos' later genealogy lists Makednos as the son of Aeolus, the founder of the Aeolian tribe, and thus a grandson of Hellen, the mythological patriarch of the Hellenes.[5]
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