CLST 2101 Chapter : CLST 2101 Unit 7 Byzantine Greece Cultural Narrative
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Early on, byzantines called themselves romans, the idea being that theirs was the continuing roman empire (while the western parts of the empire fell away). Hellenes became a term for pre-christian or pagan greeks. Hellenic culture became a divisive topic, because it could be a source of pride and part of the cultural language of the new christian empire (cf. Christians could also feel compelled to leave behind or stamp out the remnants of the pagan past. They are fathers in the sense that they were influential figures in the growth of christianity in the late first and early second centuries ad. All these writings are in greek: patristics: the study of the pioneering leaders of early christianity is called. Patristics, meaning quite literally the study of the fathers of the early. Christian church (derived from pater, the greek and latin word for father ).
