g. In the "Third Olynthiac" and in the "Third Philippic", Demosthenes characterised Philip as a "barbarian", one of the various abusive terms applied by the orator to the king of Macedon.* D. M. MacDowell, "Demosthenes the Orator", ch. 13; I. Worthington, "Alexander the Great", 21.</ref> According to Konstantinos Tsatsos and Douglas M. MacDowell, Demosthenes regarded as Greeks only those who had reached the cultural standards of south Greece and he did not take into consideration ethnological criteria.* K. Tsatsos, "Demosthenes", 258.</ref> His contempt for Philip is forcefully expressed in the "Third Philippic" 31 in these terms: "...he is not only no Greek, nor related to the Greeks, but not even a barbarian from any place that can be named with honour, but a pestilent knave from Macedonia, whence it was never yet possible to buy a decent slave." The wording is even more telling in Greek, ending with an accumulation of plosive pi sounds: Nevertheless, Philip, in his letter to the council and people of Athens, mentioned by Demosthenes, places himself "with the rest of the Greeks".