How much do you know about Macedon? Try this quiz.

Theseus · Post by **Theseus** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:26 am

http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Article/734764

karen · Post by **karen** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:45 pm

I got 8/10... was certain on most of them, iffy on three or four, but unfortunately, it doesn't tell you which questions you got wrong!

marcus · Post by **marcus** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 3:26 pm

karen wrote:I got 8/10... was certain on most of them, iffy on three or four, but unfortunately, it doesn't tell you which questions you got wrong!

Well, the answers to a couple of the questions were decidedly iffy, too! I only got 7/10 ... and it told me that I need to investigate later Macedonian history a lot more - woefully inadequate!

ATB

Theseus · Post by **Theseus** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:42 pm

There is a link on the page that you click to see the answers to the questions. I am embarrased to say I got 6/10.

AT least I did well at the Hephaestion quiz!

I did learn some things I did not know at least.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:49 pm

Got 8/10... not bad... although I was a little angry for not displaying right answers...

amyntoros · Post by **amyntoros** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:05 pm

8/10. Got the first one wrong - and I shouldn't have - but I was thrown by the phrase "after the great flood." It seems such a biblical expression that I thought it must be the wrong answer, even though I know the country was named after a man called Macedon.

T'other wrong answer was about the last Macedonian king.

Best regards,

Trader · Post by **Trader** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:05 am

Can anyone cite the source for the story about the man named "Macedon"?
I'd heard of at least three myths concerning the beginnings of Macedon but never that one.
That was the question I missed.

Callisto · Post by **Callisto** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:23 am

Hesiodus makes Macedon son of Zeus and Thyia, daughter of Deucalion and Hellanicus makes Macedon a son of Aeolus.

Got 9/10 and lost the one with Thessalonike. The right answers are in the bottom, right before the date.

Efstathios · Post by **Efstathios** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:45 pm

Makednos was probably derived from the Doric adjective "makedis" and the noun "makos" which meant the same thing, length. In Attic it was "makros". Homer also uses this word, "makednos" to indicate a tall tree. In the case of the Macedonians It was used to indicate tall people, as they were generally considered tall. So, "Makednos" became "Makedon" during the ages.

And of course there are the myths.

Defkalion and Pyrra were the first to inhabbit in Thessaly. They had 7 children. Hellin, Amfiktyonas, Kandyvos, Pandora, Thia, Melantho, Protogenia. Thia had two children, Makednon and Magni. Thia with her two children went to Pieria. And so on. What is interesting is that Macedonia had 16 peripheries, under one King. The Macedonian star has also 16 rays. So, possibly the Macedonian star's rays symbolized the peripheries. The peripheries only accepted a King from the house of Hercules, and they were named as Timenides, from Hercules' great grandson Timenos. The peripheries were Hemathia, Pieria, Vottiaia, Helimia, Tymfaia, Lygkos, Eordaia, Almopia, Orestis, Mygdonia, Halkidiki, Vysanta, Kristonia, Hedonis, Odomantiki, Sintiki.

Phoebus · Post by **Phoebus** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:17 pm

10/10.

I am apparently an honorary citizen of Macedon.

Vergina Sun · Post by **Vergina Sun** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:20 pm

9/10 surprisingly. On Question 8, though, it says "Perseus. Though the name is the same as the mythological figure who brought fire to mankind, Perseus was really the last king of Macedon." Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Prometheus give fire to mankind?

amyntoros · Post by **amyntoros** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:43 pm

Trader wrote:Can anyone cite the source for the story about the man named "Macedon"?
I'd heard of at least three myths concerning the beginnings of Macedon but never that one.
That was the question I missed.

There's this fragment from Book 7 of Strabo, although it isn't really a myth about the beginnings of Macedon - more a note on the origins of the name.

Fragment 11. The country now called Macedonia was formerly called Emathia. It acquired this name from Macedon, one of its ancient princes.

Best regards,

smittysmitty · Post by **smittysmitty** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:16 pm

Deucalion's daughter Thyia bore thunder loving Zeus two sons, Magnes and macedon fighting from a chariot, and they dwelt around Pieria and Olympus. [Hesiod frag. 9]

This little know fragment has in my opinion received little discussion regarding its provenance. It is one of N.G.L. Hammonds favourite little tid bits used to distinguish the ethnicity of the Makedones.

I got 9 out of 10 - the Cassander question threw me - and I'm not sure that I agree that Thessaloniki became Macedons capital. I guesss it doesn't really matter anyhow.

Cheers !

Sorry put you on a bum steer - it's actually [Fragment 3] From the catalogue of Women. The fragment dates from somewhere around the 9th or tenth century C.E

Theseus · Post by **Theseus** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:53 pm

Phoebus wrote:10/10.

I am apparently an honorary citizen of Macedon.

WOW! You know your Macedonian facts!

I ummm need to study a bit more apparently.

Callisto · Post by **Callisto** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:21 pm

smittysmitty wrote:
I got 9 out of 10 - the Cassander question threw me - and I'm not sure that I agree that Thessaloniki became Macedons capital. I guesss it doesn't really matter anyhow.

As a matter of fact i had the same thought about Thessalonica. I dont think it became capital prior to Roman era.

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