Thread by @Pelasgian_Queen

M. Xatzidakis

- The Byzantines from ELEMENTARY & SECONDARY EDUCATION were replaced by Homer teaching the classics (Isiodus, Demosthenes, Iphthonius Isocrates, Lyssia, Aristotle, Eclides, Pythagoras
Pindaro
Archilochus Aischylos
Sophocles
Eiripides
Epicharmo

Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophontas Ploutarchos..)

- They had the FIRST PUBLIC UNIVERSITY in the world (Pandidaktirion) with professors who taught Philosophy, Rhetoric, Law, Greek secretariat.

- It had incomparable LITERATURE (Critical Circle).

They had an unreachable PHILOLOGY with reference to collection, commentary, illustration & interpretation,
- Radical SOCIAL LAWS were in place (Sunday holiday, farmers protection, minors and family protection, protection & reinforcement of property, etc.).

-They had developed the LAW Justinian Code & founded the first Law Schools in History and.

-From the 9th century it has been observed that Paul Lemerle called "FIRST BYZANTINE HUMANISM" in his work of the same name, ("Myrioviblos"of Fotius, Iretha Caisarius

Theodore Studitis Leo Ἀ Philosopher and).

- ­The 10th century will evolve against H. W. Haussig in a "GREEK ENLIGHTENMENT", with the "Cyclopidism" movement in the operation of restoring & rescuing the Greek past, with which, as Charles Diehl writes, the ➡️

Byzantine: "From a spiritual point of view, it was sinking with all its roots in the fertile soil of Ancient Greece". ("Out" by Konstantinos Z. Porfyrogennitou, SOUDAS Dictionary, "Greek (Palatine) Anthology", etc. a).

- In the 11th century we have -against

Dion Zakithino - the "Season of MATURITY OF CLASSICAL HUMANISM". (Ioannis Mavropos, Critical Circle, "The Spirit of Armour" Ioannis Xifilinos Michael Psellos and others) a. )

- THE BYZANTINE DID NOT LIVE IN THE MIDDLE AGES. At the time when the darkness of

the Examination period ruled the West, Byzantine legislation banned the "examination after torment". ῦ "charity" represented the Supreme Royal Virtue. ό diplomat worked as a "peacemaker", trade was conducted in currency. The "feudarchic" system was unknown

and in the 12th century illegal slavery was abolished.

- According to Louis Brehier, the Empire acted as the "FALLOWE OF EUROPE" & the LIBRARY OF HUMANITY". As Augustin Marrast writes "Istanbul was a commercial & religious metropolis, CAPITAL OF THE MEDDLE

AGES CULTURE".
French scientist Charles Diehl: "The Byzantine Existed - a bright civilization, One of the brightest it met- the Middle Ages & perhaps THE ONLY CULTIVATION that really met- Europe - between the late 5th & the beginning of the 11th centuries".

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