It makes sense why the Germans, Russians, or Ibero-Latinx would larp as them, but why the Greeks?Greece already had a rich and beautiful ancient history that produced and influenced everyone east, west, north, and south, including the Romans who at some point worshipped the Greeks. Couldn’t Byzaboos treat it more as a continuation of Ancient Greece rather than Ancient Rome?
I think a few of these emperors did claim Macedonian heritage, but not all of them could. An Isaurian or an Armenian couldn't rule this place on the basis of being Greek.Also, Constantinople retained the Roman governmental institutions. The West had, uh... the Pontifex Maximus, sort of. And nobody much paid attention to the Roman bishop's pretensions to that office until Gregory VII.
>>18531913A better name than the Byzantine Empire would be the Constantinopolitan Empire. Because for most of its history that's what it was politically, an empire highly centralized around its seat of power which was fundamentally a continuation of the Roman Empire. Not a successor state, but Rome itself, with all the same institutions. Roman culture was at that time thoroughly Hellenized, especially in the East, and it just continued in that trajectory.
>>18531945that's already implied since byzantium=constantinople
>>18531985I don't think so, because when people think Byzantium they think of an image like OP's without realizing that all of that was essentially a Roman city state.
>>18531913Thank you for posting this original content! We rarely discuss this topic on /his/I'm going to take some time craft a well thought out reply because I have never seen anyone ever propose such a topic. I'm sure you will all take my response into consideration when forming your opinion.
>>18531913Because the Romans buckbroke them so hard, overshadowed them so profoundly, that they couldn't cope with being Greek.
>>18532183>overshadowed them so profoundly, that they couldn't cope with being Greekthis is a /his/ board, at the very least read a book about history. The Roman East remained greek until the collapse of the Roman West, Greek became a state language in the Roman Empire, the greek world fused with the roman world and both became the same thing. That's why the Byzantine Empire remained greek even when they still considered themselves roman
>>18533112>The Roman East remained greekstopped reading right there
>>18533117cope all you want, the East influenced the West in so many forms, in language, clothing, administration; latin never became a dominating culture in the eastern provinces while the roman nobility was being hellenized since the times of the late republic>As Roman aristocrats encountered Greeks in southern Italy and in the East in the 3rd century, they learned to speak and write in Greek. Scipio Africanus and Flamininus, for example, are known to have corresponded in Greek. By the late republic it became standard for senators to be bilingual. Many were reared from infancy by Greek-speaking slaves and later tutored by Greek slaves or freedmen. (...) Because Greek was the lingua franca of the East, Romans had to use Greek if they wished to reach a wider audience. Thus the first histories by Romans were written in Greek. The patrician Fabius Pictor, who, as noted above, founded the Roman tradition of historiography during the Second Punic War, wrote his annalistic history of Rome in Greek partly in order to influence Greek views in favor of Rome, and he emphasized Rome’s ancient ties to the Greek world (...).https://www.britannica.com/place/ancient-Rome/Culture-and-religion
>>18533125>languageGreek was essentially limited to an academic language in the West, and by the Late Republic, nearly all writings by Romans for public consumption were done in Latin, the use of Greek for texts was rather uniquely a Middle Republican affair and did not outlast it, outside of philosophy. >clothingHardly. In fact the Romans won out on this one. The Toga became the elite choice of dress even in Greece by Late Antiquity for public affairs. >administrationDefinitely not, the Roman administration had already formed by the Middle Republic and the administration of Augustus was essentially slapping an autocrat onto an already working Republican system which owed little to Greece. Diocletian's reforms had no analogue in the Greek world at all.When it came to other aspects of Greek culture, the Romans picked and chose what they wanted and discarded the rest. The Romans, unlike the Greeks had no respect for performers and they were given an inferior legal status even as citizens. Polybius recounts a triumph were Greek performers were paraded around with some disgust because of how the performers were made to act, while it was something the Romans loved, was seen as disgraceful in Greek sensibilities. Religious cults were subsumed into the Roman state cults or outright destroyed like with the Bacchanalia. Where Greek culture won out was in literature and philosophy, which not even the grumblings and attempted bans by elite Romans could curb.
>>18531913Because Rome WAS Greek, in the East. It was Latin in the West.
They literally were Roman citizens.
>>18533125>>18533133the truth is, ancient greece and rome influenced and overshadowed each other in many waysthe romans were superior appliers (administration, engineering, warfare), and the greeks were superior thinkers (scientists, authors, artists, philosophers)they're like peanut butter and chocolategreat when separate, but when they combine they make the morning time epic
>>18534950>they're like peanut butter and chocolateholy fatass
>>18531913Rome and Greece are part of the same culture. Ancient Rome adopted Greek culture, philosophy, art, poetry as much as vice-versa. Could Virgil have written the Aeneid if not for Homer?
>>18531913>why did the eastern romans larp as romans for 1000+ years?oo gee wow I don't know!
>>18531913They didnt. It was Rome you retard.
