La frontera norte de Grecia

Synopsis of La frontera norte de Grecia

The history of the northern border of Greece before the rise of Macedonia has been overshadowed by the splendor of the South. This book explores the turbulent relations between the Greeks and the Thracians, Scythians and Celts, especially throughout the 5th century BC. This permanent confrontation with the barbarians of the north served the Macedonians to perfect their art of war. Philip II fought them, incorporating into the Macedonian army everything he learned from them, and later his son, Alexander the Great, would use them as mercenaries. Paradoxically, those rough Greeks, whom the Athenians considered unworthy of being called Hellenes, were the ones who took the idea of Hellenism further than anyone else, which Aristotle put in Alexander's mind.