Book from 1890 says that Albanians nursed Pyrrhus, Rome, Olympias, Alexander the Great, and the Dorians

Book from 1890 says that Albanians nursed Pyrrhus, Rome, Olympias, Alexander the Great, and the Dorians

Cited:

“….in sight of the Acro-Ceraunian Mountains, and that wild country, now Albania, which of old nursed Pyrrhus, the scourge of Rome ; Olympias, the Titanic mother of Alexander the Great ; and in after days a lesser Alexander, Scanderbeg, who was, neverthless, a great figure in the history of his day ; and as the Dorians of old came clown from their mountains, and refreshed Southern Greece with their strong youth and their warlike virtues, so, in the Middle Ages, these Albanian mountaineers have brought both warlike spirit, bright costume, and beauty of person, to refresh the Hellenic race. There are still, even in Attica, districts where Albanian is the common language ; there are Albanian names famous in Greek annals…”

Source

Greek pictures. J. P. Mahaffy. 1890. https://archive.org/details/greekpicturesdra00maha/page/20/mode/1up?q=Albania

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