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Originally Posted by Gladstone
That's interesting to know. It is something I'd wondered about...that is just how much aware they (the Byzantines) were of their Roman past.
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Not quite the same, I think. "Greek Romans".
This is just an idea of mine. In my view, in the long process over which the Roman Empire and Civilization was built, there were two slopes: one western ("Celto-Roman") and one eastern ("Helleno-Roman"). And if we agree with this sketchy scheme, we can speculate that the convergence of these two slopes in Rome, made it the great Imperial Civilization that it was. And the foundations of Europe.
I don't know if any scholar or researcher has speculated about this idea before. But I would be interested in a comparative study of the western and eastern inputs, at all times since the birth of Rome and until its fall and beyond.
And it would also be interesting to see how these two slopes were later modified, or adapted, with the Germanic addition in the west and the Slavic addition in the east.
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