"The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their langua…"

"That the Macedonians and their kings did in fact speak a dialect of Greek and bore Greek names may be regarded nowada…"

"He was still in a world of Greek gods and sacrifices, of Greek plays and Greek language, though the natives might spe…"

"Cleopatra VII would have described herself as a Greek. Whatever the racial ingredients of her Macedonian ancestors, h…"

"That the Macedonians were of Greek stock seems certain. The claim made by the Argead dynasty to be of Argive descent …"

"The toponyms of the Macedonian homeland are the most significant. Nearly all of them are Greek."

"Hesiod first mentioned 'Makedon', the eponym of the people and the country, as a son of Zeus, a grandson of Deukalion…"

"All in all, the language of the Macedones was a distinct and particular form of Greek, resistant to outside influence…"

"There were two parts of the Greek-speaking world at this time which did not suffer from revolution and did not seek t…"

"The first Greek-speaking people in the southern Balkan Peninsula arrived in Macedonia, Thessaly, and Epirus sometime …"