A great book — and destined to be the seminal go-to for these issues — for anybody interested in role Hellenism played in later Greek consciousness is Kaldellis’ “Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition“:
It leaves you with more questions than answers, but that’s probably how it should be.
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Tags: Byzantines, Byzantium, Greeks, Hellenism, Neo-Greeks
Me, I'm Nicholas Bakos, a.k.a. "NikoBako." I'm Greek (Roman really, but when I say that in English some five people in the world today understand what I'm talking about, so I use "Greek" for shorthand). I'm from New York. I live all over the place these days. The rest should become obvious from the blog.
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