Very long. Want the short version? The Greeks (artists and artisans) were given the Deposit of the Faith. Since the Romans (engineers and technicians) ran the known world, they brought it to Rome and attempted to translate artistic language into technical language.
That mindset led us down the road of parallel understandings and eventually schism. Isn't it ironic that English, the bastard child of many of the major languages in the world is a great force in bringing us back together because English is now the lingua franca and not Greek or Latin (or its derivatives such as French). English, one of the hardest lanauges to learn properly, ironically, is one of the easier second languages to learn.
Brilliant!