What makes a Greek?
Jan 20, 2022
2 minutes
The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton Faber, 608 pages, £25
Philip of Macedon – father of Alexander the Great – was famously victorious in the Olympic chariot race of 356 BC. The path to victory was not without its speedbumps, though, among them a disagreement over whether Philip was Greek enough to participate in the games at all. He definitely
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