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- From: lje@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (lisa.j.elser)
- Subject: Re: Arab preservation of "european" thought
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:37:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.173710.26142@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec9.215758.28173@panix.com> <Bz10nC.Du3@nic.umass.edu> <1980@spam.ua.oz>
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- In article <1980@spam.ua.oz> jaskew@spam.ua.oz (Joseph Askew) writes:
- >
- >Another ignorant blunder. Byzantium was in 1000 AD alive and well. It's
- >official language which everyone had to speak was Classical Greek. I guess
- >you don't count the Greeks as European? What about the Bulgars, Serbs and
- >Russians? All of them had scholars/monks using and studying Classical Greek
- >
- >
-
- No, dear, they spoke Byzantine Greek--about as similar to Classical Greek
- as Chaucer to today, or Beowulf to Chaucer.
-
- The Attic philosophers were deemed heretical by the Byzantine Christian
- government and were not being studied in any measurable way. Ever
- hear of the Library at Alexander? 'thought not.
-
- sheesh. I don't expect youngsters to have a good grip on early medieval
- culture and history, but I sure don't expect to see marginal knowledge
- tossed out as gospel. (Then what am I doing on Usenet, she wonders :-)
-
- Lisa
-