Alexander the Great - Encyclopedia Channel

And it mentions NOWHERE that Alexander had anything to do with Illyrians you idiotic. His FIRST campaign EVER was AGAINST Illyrians. His father Philip ALSO made campaigns against Illyrians. The war with the Greeks was a CIVIL WAR. Obviously he didn't want the stinky illiterate Illyrians to be part of Greece, he just used them as slave pawns and made his debut as a warrior killing Illyrians. THe only credit Illyrians deserve , is for being the training pawns of Alexander.

You prove your stupidity and your lack of knowledge again. The language of the Epirote tribes (Molossians, Chaones, Thesproties) was the Greek language. The coins found there, the Molossian decrees and everything have Greek inscriptions. No modern scholar(historian) questions Epirus Greekness except some idiotics braindead like yourself who you think you know the hidden "truth"

The whole world doesn't know or doesn't believe that you are descendants of Illyrians. Only yourselves believe that. It is just a theory you idiot dumbass but it's too hard to accept it. Because northern Epirus is Albania now that changes the history that it was populated by Greek tribes? It seems you are a typical braindead Albanian.

Besides, we talk about the Hellenistic period (4th - 1st century BC), which stretch from the Alexander's years to the defeat of Cleopatra, the Athenians at that time was degraded.
As you see all the kingdoms or the empires (Macedonian Epirus Ptolemaic, Seleucid, Antigonid, Attalid etc).of that time were Hellenic-Greek except the newborn Roman empire.
You catch now why this period named Hellenistic period?

@ Mynameswho
These are proofs my friend not like your... imaginations.
In your image the worldwide known as ancient Greeks were only the ancient Athenians but you wrong by far.

All the ancient Greek and Roman writers such as Apollodorus, Strabo, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Frontinus, Pausanias, Ptolemy, Cassius Dio, Eutropius, .... describe Epirus peoples as Greeks.

2) Chaones of northwestern Epirus, Chaon was a Greek hero and the eponymous ancestor of the Chaonians who gave his name to Chaonia and his name is derived from the Greek word that mean "chaos"
3) Thesprotians of south Epirus, his name is a Greek compound term means "first-thesis"

The tribes of ancient Epirus were all parts of the primal Greek Dorian tribe.
Enumeration of these sub-tribes of Dorian Greeks...
1) Molossians of center Epirus, his name is a simple Greek compound term means "grand-indigenous" The Molossians allied themselves with the increasingly powerful Greek kingdom of Macedon.

3) The Oracle of Zeus at Dodona(Greek compound term means "Godly-Pulsation") regarded from all the ancient Greeks as second only to the more famous oracle at Delphi.

1) The Nectomanteion(is a simple Greek compound term means "Dead-Oracle")
2) The River Acheron(Greek compound term means "river of woe") Ancient Greeks believed to be a branch of the underworld river Styx over which in ancient Greek mythology Charon ferried the newly dead souls across into Hades.
Was the boundary between Earth and the Underworld(Hades)

Plutarch mentions an interesting cultural element of the Epirotes regarding Achilles. In his biography of king Pyrrhus said that Achilles had a divine status.
There are ancestral link between Epirus and the Mycenean(Greek) civilization
Certainly, Mycenean remains have been found at all the ancient religious sites in the region, the most important Pan-Hellenic(Greek) religious sites in Epirus who were worshiped by all the ancient Greeks during all the ancient years are:

The consul Publius Decius Mus was the Roman commander, and his able force, though defeated, broke the back of Pyrrhus Hellenic army, and guaranteed the security of the city itself. The battle foreshadowed later Roman victories over more numerous and well-armed successor state military forces and inspired the term "Pyrrhic victory", meaning a victory, which comes at a crippling cost.

Pyrrhus aim was the Hellenic-Greek unification (like and the aim of his second cousin, Alexander) in order to lead the war against the Romans.
Thus he entered Italy with a strong Greek army in a bid to subdue the Romans and he defeated the Romans, in the Battle of Heraclea in 280 BC. 15,000 Roman were dead and 13,000 Greeks. The Greek cities of Croton and Locri joined Pyrrhus. He then offered the Romans a peace treaty, which was eventually rejected.

Pyrrhus recognized the possibility of carving out a new Hellenic empire for himself in Italy.

In 281 the Greek city of Tarentum, in southern Italy, fell out with Rome and was faced with a Roman attack and certain defeat. Rome had already made itself into a major power, and was poised to subdue all the Greek cities in Magna Graecia(the west Mediterranean Greek colonialism in nowadays Italy, France etc.). The Greeks Tarentines asked from their compatriot Greek Pyrrhus of Epirus to help them.

The Pyrrhus became
king of the Molossians (from 297 BC),
king of Epirus (306-301, 297-272 BC) and
king of Macedon + Epirus(288-284, 273-272 BC).
Pyrrhus and Attila were the strongest opponents of Roman Empire in history.
His aim was the Hellenic-Greece unification (like and Alexander's aim before him) in order to lead the war against the Romans.

Olympias brother Arymbas was the grandfather of the one of the most successful ancient Greek generals of the Hellenistic era the legendary ancient Greek Pyrrhus of Epirus 318-272 BC.
Pyrrhus (Greek term means "Fire like") was the son of Aeacides(Greek term means "of the earth") of Epirus and Phthia(her name is the region name of Achilles house)
Pyrrhus was the second cousin of Alexander the Great. He was prince of one of the Alexandrian successor states

The ancient (historian, biographer and essayist) Plutarch writes...
"It is agreed on by all hands, that on the father's side, Alexander descended from Hercules by Caranus, and from Achilles by Neoptolemus on the mother's side"

Plutarch, The Life of Alexander

Alexander the great always believed that Achilles was his ancestor. According to the myth, Achilles had a son who was called Neoptolemos. He came in Troy after the death of his father and fought brave, although he was a teenager. He took Hector's wife, Andromache as a slave and had three sons with her. The first one Molossos, created the Dynasty of Molosseans in Epirus. A descendent of them was Olympias the Alexander's mother.

Olympias was daughter of Neoptolemus king of Epirus, her father name is a simple Greek compound term means "new-war".
Epirus is a Greek word too with dual meaning "mainland" and "vastness"
I don't think to believe Olympias is a non-Greek name?
Her father descent from Neoptolemus(son of Achilles).
This formed the basis of Alexander's claims to be a new Achilles!!!

Mynameswho your arguments are just your illusions.
Lets talk about "Olympias from Epirus" the Alexander's mother with proven arguments.

And instead of questioning my sources of knowledge, y don't you question yours??? It is not mentioned at least once in this video that Alexander the Great was greek. It always says he is Macedonian. It says that Alexander occupied the other Greek states. SO STFU, YOU STINKING P***y !

Of course Illyria, didn't include Epirus, because Epirus was another kingdom, but they spoke the same language. They had similar traditions and customs, too. And yes the map of Illyricum was made by the Roman Empire, but it was based on Illyria, you dickhead.

you F**king T**t , you are just an idiot dumbass. if you think albanians are not descendants of illyrians, then ur a dickhead. the whole world knows that, and there is proof too. many words have changed so little from the illyrians language to todays albanian. you dicksucker, molossians, lyncestis, and paionians were illyrian tribes. if you didn't know, the borders of molossians are still in albanian territories today.

You would also know that there is no modern professor of history that doubts about the Greekness of Molossians and Lyncestae, and no one links them with Illyrians. It's like doubting about if Einstain was a Jew, or Newton was British. Also another common tactic of Albanian nationalistic propaganda is presenting the map of Illyricum of the Roman Empire which was not Illyria, but a Roman province, show it to the victims like yourself, and "convince" them that Illyria included Epirus, Paionia etc.