malkin irad ancient perceptions of greek ethnicity harvard center for hellenic studies trustees for harvard university pp isbn this source is used irresponsibly in the article using it to state macedonian greeks have roots in ancient macedonians when the book itself states arrian refers to greeks and macedonians as belonging to different gene a term that explicitly articulates notions of descent there we find that eponymous macedon who supposedly gave his name to the macedonians was regarded as the brother of magnes and son of zeus and thuia the daughter of deucalion filiation from zeus in itself provided no qualifications for greek descent in his to philip men are divided in three groups greeks macedonians and barbarians he does not list the th century macedonian capital pella among them greek cities pages