Quote (Skinned @ Mar 12 2015 11:51am)
Many of the Greeks resented being ruled by Philip because he was a backwoods Macedonian. There was distinction prior to Alexander, but Alexander was Great and in Hellenism Macedonian and Greek were kin.
I'm probably not telling you anything new here though :lol:
That's the same from almost every country. There's a part of the homeland that isn't quite as well thought of as the rest. In the UK it used to be the Scottish Highlands. In the Netherlands it was Friesland. In Japan you have the Ryuku Islands and Hokkaido.
Athens was civilization and their kin to the north were barbarians. Well the jokes on them, when people think of great Greek leaders we think of Alexander of Macedon and Pyrrhus of Epirus, two Greeks from the "uncivilized" part of Greece.