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Grcite denes tvrdat deka poimot Helen i Grk e edno isto. Ako prasate Grci sto se po nacionalnost kje rechat "Elines". Kluchnoto prashanje togash e: shto e "Helen"? .............
This leads to another question; how did the ancient Greeks determine who was a "hellene" in an ethnic sense?
There were two criteria; one was the person participated in the Olympics, the other was that a city or region had fought on the Greek side of the Trojan War. The Macedonians fit neither of these criteria.”
(Michael A. Dimitri, "The Radiance of Ancient Macedonia," Fort Wayne, 1992, pg. 17)
Znachi terminot "Heleni" e upotrebuvan vo antikata kako kulturoloshka generalizacija (neshto kako terminot "Zapad" denes) namesto kako etnichka odrednica. Isokrat toa mnogu ubavo go objasnil vo citatot daden od M. Dimitri pogore.
No istiot termin bil upotrebuvan vo etnichki smisol samo vo dva sluchaja:
(1) ako chovek uchestvuval na Olimpiskite igri; i/ili
(2) ako odreden grad ili podrachje se borele na stranata na Helenite vo Trojanskata vojna.
Makedoncite/Makedonija ne podpagja pod nieden od dvata kriteriuma!
Isocrates gives the following definition of a Hellene in his Panagyricus:
"Athens has so far outrun the rest of mankind in thought and speech that her disciples are the masters of the rest, and it is due her that the word Greek(Hellene) is not much a term of BIRTH as it is of a mentality, and it is applied to a COMMON CULTURE rather than to a COMMON DESCENT."