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

"Philip's mother had been a Lyncestian noblewoman" - "rebellious kings of Lyncestis who traced their origins to the no…"

"Olympia's royal ancestry traced back to the hero Achilles, and the blood of Helen of Troy was believed to run on her …"

"The Macedonian kings, who maintained that their Greek ancestry traced back to Zeus, had long given homes and patronag…"

"But Alexander was stressing his link with Achilles... Achilles was also a stirring Greek hero, useful for a Macedonia…"

"No man, and only one hero, had been called invincible before him, and then only by a poet, but the hero was Heracles,…"

""War", Philip had announced, "was being declared against the Persians on behalf of the Greeks, to punish the barbaria…"

"Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barba…"

"To his ancestors (to a Persian's ancestors) Macedonians were only known as 'yona takabara', the 'Greeks who wear shie…"

"As for the hired Greeks in Persian service, thousands of the dead were to be buried, but the prisoners were bound in …"