Very good video, keep up great work.

Looking forward to the continuation of this series. Roman views on this topic are so strange and interesting to us modern people.

thanks Mr. Craft, great video & fascinating topic as always

Interesting that the idea of "Eastern decadence" goes all the way back to the days of the Roman Republic, I thought it came from ideas spurred by the Enlightenment and the Romanticism, especially since they were often used in service of imperial causes.

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Really overestimating people saying most would know about library of alexandria

All greek states more or less had their own local idioms of the greek language, "macedonian" or as it is called here in greece alexandrian or hellinistic is the closest one to the modern greek one. The differences are minor in can be counted in some handful of grammar and expression idioms and the expected drift in some word meanings (because of time passed from lets say main iolic, main doric dialects and grammar and helinistic). The modern problem with North Macedonian identity is on another scale. The area was part of the ancient macedonian core grounds (about the southern 20% of the country) and the following provinces (of roman, byzantine and ottoman) but the population ethnographically are not. They are southern slavs local descendants of the slavic invasion and conquest of middle age byzantine balkan region, with their particular to the area language (serb-vlah-bulgarian mix). In 1957 were recognized as "macedonians" and "macedonian" language for political favor to Tito and Ygoslavia under USA and USSR pressure. (typical Balkan divide and conquer "games" of great powers)

I would say that Macedonia is definitely much more Greek than a Slavic Balkan state that speaks a Slavic language but adopted the name for their country.