From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61421
Date: 2008-11-05
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From: george knysh
>
> Anti-parallel, so to speak: the Romans admired Greek
> culture,
> and the borrowing went in the other direction, from Greek
> to
> Latin.
>
> Brian
****GK: There may have been a bit in the opposite direction from the 6th c.
onwards. I'm not sure how much. Perhaps not too much, but specialists would
know. When the Eastern Roman Empire became hellenized. It's interesting that
the Byzantines consistently referred to themselves (in Greek) as "Romei"
(obviously from the Latin "Romani"").****
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Should we not interpret this as a sign the Byzantines were competing with
the western part of the Empire, not about the "Roman" feature, but about the
Christian feature, kind of trying to out-catholic the Catholics ?
Arnaud