Scholars peaked in Classical Greece and went downhill from there; the real dark ages began when the Romans spread their hedonistic degeneracy. Even during the Roman Golden Age, all the great scholars were Greek. Heck, there were more scholars in the Dark Ages than in Pax Romana.
>>18363595when european barbarians, including the italians, stopped larping as romans and started larping as greeks, that was when wisdom finally reappeared
>>18363596likewise, the greeks kept larping as romans, they became an irrelevant civilization
>>18363595Many of them were in Egypt or other parts of the Roman Empire.Claudius Ptolemy for example lived in Roman Egypt and isn't be counted as being from Italy
>>18363679egypt was hellenized throughout the alexander and roman age
