To: Destro
Will Durant wrote that the worst mistake that the Romans ever made was hiring Greek educators who purposely erroded the morals of the Romans and made subsequent generations effeminate, leading to Western Rome's long slow slide into decay while the Byzantine Greeks in the Eastern empire held sway for another 6/7 hundred years.
124 posted on
05/10/2003 5:23:48 AM PDT by
metesky
(Pa always said the freakin' Romans deserved it.)
To: metesky
"...while the Byzantine Greeks in the Eastern empire held sway for another 6/7 hundred years."Greeks holding sway? Come here my little one, the night is young, and the ouzu....and I have some fresh hay for you..."
125 posted on
05/10/2003 6:48:00 AM PDT by
Leisler
(Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard!)
To: metesky
Read: "The Story of Philosophy:, Will Durant.
127 posted on
05/10/2003 7:16:47 AM PDT by
Helms
(Californication Beyond California)
To: metesky
Before the Greeks the Latins were backwards barbarians. If the Greeks ruined the Romans how is it that they outlasted the Latins by 1,000 years of full force empire and their language is still alive while Latin is as dead as the Pope's sex life?
151 posted on
05/10/2003 3:59:00 PM PDT by
Destro
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