Did Alexander the Great speak Greek natively? Was the Macedonian language a dialect of Classical Greek like Attic and Doric, or was it a different language entirely? Let's take a look at one of the most important pieces of evidence discovered in the last century that gives us a very clear answer!
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Greek: A History of the Language and its People, by Geoffrey Horrocks
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Livy, The History of Rome, 31.29.15
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Michael Meier-Brügger, Indo-European linguistics, Walter de Gruyter, 2003, p.28
Hatzopoulos, Miltiades B. (2020). "The speech of the ancient Macedonians". Ancient Macedonia.
Masson, Olivier (2003). "[Ancient] Macedonian language". In Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony (eds.).
Roisman, Worthington, 2010, "A Companion to Ancient Macedonia", Chapter 5: Johannes Engels, "Macedonians and Greeks", p. 95:"This (i.e. Pella curse tablet) has been judged to be the most important ancient testimony to substantiate that Macedonian was a north-western Greek and mainly a Doric dialect".
Dosuna, J. Méndez (2012). "Ancient Macedonian as a Greek dialect: A critical survey on recent work (Greek, English, French, German text)"
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