Eugene N. Borza

"Some of the Macedonian émigré community in North America have adopted Ernst Badian, Peter Green, and me as “their” scholarly authorities, believing that we possess a pro-Macedonian bias in this confli…"

"It is difficult to know whether an independent Macedonian state would have come into existence had Tito not recognised and supported the development of Macedonian ethnicity as oart of his ethnically o…"

"The Macedonians are a newly emergent people in search of a past to help legitimize their precarious present as they attempt to establish their singular identity in a Slavic world dominated historicall…"

"Our understanding of the Macedonians' emergence into history is confounded by two events: the establishment of the Macedonians as an identifiable ethnic group, and the foundation of their ruling house…"

"There is no reason to deny the Macedonians' own traditions about their early kings and the migration of the Macedones The basic story as provided by Herodotus and Thucydides, minus the interpolation o…"

"Movie critics have complained that the movie lacks coherent vision. The fault may not be Stone's. We know what did, and it continues to astonish us, but we don't know how or why he did it... Stone sug…"

"Who were the Macedonians? As an ethnic question it is the best avoided, since the mainly modern political overtones tend to obscure the fact that it really is not a very important issue. That they may…"

"Only recently have we begun to clarify these muddy waters by revealing the Demosthenean corpus for what it is: oratory designed to sway public opinion and thereby to formulate public policy. That elus…"