Just historical quotes. No writing on this video is my interpretation. No need for discussion. -- "Alexander expressed his admiration of Greek culture by encouraging closer ties with Greece. The Great lyric poet Pindar of Thebes composed poems praising Alexander, and he was awarded the title "Filelini", or "Friend of the Greeks". Such an award, incidentally, would acknowledge that Alexander the Macedonian was not a Greek Herodotus tells us that Alexander once went to Olympus to contend in the Pan-Hellenic contests. Knowing that he was from Macedonia, the Greeks wished to exclude him from the games, saying that only Greeks were allowed to contend, and not barbarians." Edwin E. Jacques The Albanians: An Ethnic History from Prehistoric Times to the Present -- 'What is now called Macedonia was in earlier times called Emathia. And it took its present name from Macedon, one of its early chieftans. And there was also a city Emathia close to the sea. Now a part of this country was taken...