Alexander the Great a Mirdites Albanian
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 10:30 pm
Alexander the Great a Mirdites Albanian
In a pamphlet written in 1416 by the Byzantine satirist Mazaris, GÇÿThe Sojourn of Mazaris in HadesGÇÖ, there is an imaginary letter dated 21 September 1415 and addressed from the Peloponnese to one Holobolos of the Underworld, which describes the condition then existing in the peninsula:GÇ£In the Peloponnese GǪ live pell-mell numerous nations, of which it is not easy nor very necessary to retrace the boundaries, but every ear can easily distinguish them by their languages, and here are the most notable of them: Lacedaemonians, Italians, Peloponessians, Slavs, Illyrians, Egyptians, and Jews (and among them are not a few half-castes) in all seven nations.GÇ¥ It must be paragraphs like this tempting Phil-Hellenes and Slavophones to paint the origin of Albanians as enshrouded into mystery. It is time we spread the clouds and let the eagle fly high on clear skies over peaks she once raised her eaglets. Aristotle, AlexanderGÇÖs teacher, favored a GÇ£TimocracyGÇ¥ (rule by honor) GÇô a combination of aristocracy and democracy, in which the suffrage would be restricted to property owners, and a numerous middle class would be the pivot and balance wheel of power, an idea very similar to the rule of inviolable trust in the history of Mirdites Albanians. However, Leonidas, the Epirote, rather than Aristotle was considered as AlexanderGÇÖs greatest teacher.GÇ£The care of his education as it might be presumed, was committed to a great many attendants, preceptors, and teachers, over the whole of whom Leonidas, a near kinsman of Olympias, a man of an austere temper, presided, who did not indeed himself decline the name of what in reality is a noble and honorable office, but in general his dignity, and his near relationship, obtained him from other people the title of AlexanderGÇÖs foster-father and governor.GÇ¥ (The Life of Alexander the Great GÇô Plutarch)We know for a fact that AlexanderGÇÖs mother Olympia was an Epirote Princess. We also know that PhilipsGÇÖ mother Eurydice was Illyrian which makes 3/4th of AlexanderGÇÖs blood Illyrian. The question is whether the Macedonian ruling house was Greek or Illyrian. Shala, Shoshi and Mirdita, says tradition, descend from three brothers, who came from modern Kosova (ancient Dardania). When they left, the first took a saddle (shala); the second a winnowing sieve (shosh); and the third had nothing, so he said GÇÿgood-dayGÇÖ (mir dit) and withdrew. Up to the days E.
In a pamphlet written in 1416 by the Byzantine satirist Mazaris, GÇÿThe Sojourn of Mazaris in HadesGÇÖ, there is an imaginary letter dated 21 September 1415 and addressed from the Peloponnese to one Holobolos of the Underworld, which describes the condition then existing in the peninsula:GÇ£In the Peloponnese GǪ live pell-mell numerous nations, of which it is not easy nor very necessary to retrace the boundaries, but every ear can easily distinguish them by their languages, and here are the most notable of them: Lacedaemonians, Italians, Peloponessians, Slavs, Illyrians, Egyptians, and Jews (and among them are not a few half-castes) in all seven nations.GÇ¥ It must be paragraphs like this tempting Phil-Hellenes and Slavophones to paint the origin of Albanians as enshrouded into mystery. It is time we spread the clouds and let the eagle fly high on clear skies over peaks she once raised her eaglets. Aristotle, AlexanderGÇÖs teacher, favored a GÇ£TimocracyGÇ¥ (rule by honor) GÇô a combination of aristocracy and democracy, in which the suffrage would be restricted to property owners, and a numerous middle class would be the pivot and balance wheel of power, an idea very similar to the rule of inviolable trust in the history of Mirdites Albanians. However, Leonidas, the Epirote, rather than Aristotle was considered as AlexanderGÇÖs greatest teacher.GÇ£The care of his education as it might be presumed, was committed to a great many attendants, preceptors, and teachers, over the whole of whom Leonidas, a near kinsman of Olympias, a man of an austere temper, presided, who did not indeed himself decline the name of what in reality is a noble and honorable office, but in general his dignity, and his near relationship, obtained him from other people the title of AlexanderGÇÖs foster-father and governor.GÇ¥ (The Life of Alexander the Great GÇô Plutarch)We know for a fact that AlexanderGÇÖs mother Olympia was an Epirote Princess. We also know that PhilipsGÇÖ mother Eurydice was Illyrian which makes 3/4th of AlexanderGÇÖs blood Illyrian. The question is whether the Macedonian ruling house was Greek or Illyrian. Shala, Shoshi and Mirdita, says tradition, descend from three brothers, who came from modern Kosova (ancient Dardania). When they left, the first took a saddle (shala); the second a winnowing sieve (shosh); and the third had nothing, so he said GÇÿgood-dayGÇÖ (mir dit) and withdrew. Up to the days E.