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• Macedonia as a whole was tended to remain in isolation from the rest of the Greeks...
  • "Alexander the Great", page 20

• ...for the first time he (Phillip) started to understand how Macedonia's outdated institutions of feudalism an aristocratic monarchy so despised by the rest of Greece.
  • "Alexander the Great", page 24

• In less than four years he had transformed Macedonia from a backward and primitive kingdom to one of the most powerful states in the Greek world.
  • "Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography", page 32

• Aristotle found support for his thesis in facts drawn from geopolitics or ‘natural law’. Greek superiority had to be proved demonstrably innate, a gift of nature. In one celebrated fragment he counsels Alexader to be ‘a hegemon[leader] of Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or plants’
  • "Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography", page 58