[mxxc]

it is a bit baffling that 99% of the articles talking about greece go on and on about a period that after all lasted 300-400 years and until the macedonians it was sort of politically irrelevant. this compared to the thousand years of hellenised eastern roman empire where not the same philosophical works have been written, but "byzantine domination", really?

those were greeks and the main inspiration for both the great idea (it was about restoring byzantine prestige, certainly not "athenian"), and the state structure afterwards, with kings called constantine and the church as a relevant part of the state.

"modern greeks don't seem to have much to do with the old ones". that's right. I wonder what happened in those 2000 years we keep wanting to ignore.

[Bayart]

Christianity has just unfashionable since the 18th c. in the Latin West, that's all there is to it. All the more so dubious Oriental Christianity.