Frasi di Michael Wood

Michael Wood, all'anagrafe Michael David Wood , è uno storico e presentatore di documentari televisivi britannico.

Ha studiato alla Manchester Grammar School e all'Oriel College, Oxford. Si interessa soprattutto di storia anglosassone. Si è messo in luce nel programma tv della BBC2 Alla ricerca degli anni bui, basato sulle biografie dei capi dell'epoca, tra cui Atelstano d'Inghilterra, re Artù e Eric "Ascia insanguinata". La sua fama è subito cresciuta sia in patria che negli Stati Uniti. Wikipedia

✵ 23. Luglio 1948

Michael Wood: Frasi in inglese

“Long long ago, before the days of Islam, Sikander e Aazem came to India. The Two Horned one whom you British people call Alexander the Great. He conquered the world, and was a very great man, brave and dauntless and generous to his followers. When he left to go back to Greece, some of his men did not wish to go back with him but preferred to stay here. Their leader was a general called Shalakash (Seleucus). With some of his officers and men, he came to these valleys and they settled here and took local women, and here they stayed. We, the Kalash, the Black Kafir of the Hindu Kush, are the descendants of their children. Still some of our words are the same as theirs, our music and our dances, too; we worship the same gods. This is why we believe the Greeks are our first ancestors…”

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Statement made by a Kalash named Kazi Khushnawaz, "Footsteps of Alexander the Great p. 8
i.e.: Seleucus was one of the Generals of Alexander the Great. He was born in 358 or 354 BC in the town of Europos, Macedonia and died in August/September 281 BC near Lysimathia, Thrace.