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"I believe that no one of you is ignorant that the Latins received every kind of the liberal arts (liberalium artium) from the Greeks. And it is also well known that the originators of all these arts were Greek and that the very names of the arts were inspired from the Greek."
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The rise of Venice to become the great emporium for the West’s trade with the East was closely connected with the Byzantine recovery; culturally, Venice was really an outpost of the great metropolis at Constantinople – as its architecture revealed.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
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"Letters and arms were at all times, by universal consent, considered the principal adornment of men; of which our nation gives clear testimony..."
Greek expats today should take a look at the ones back in 1593, when the creation of their Greek community schools was their priority.
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We usually talk about the Byzantine Greek exiles that helped igniting the sparkle of the Renaissance by transferring the cultural treasure the Byzantium had kept intact for more than a thousand years...but what most of them got back in return?
Konstantinos Laskaris (1434-1501) describes the fate of the Greek scholars... See more
Cosimo founded and Lorenzo continued the Florentine Academy, which was largely devoted to the study of Plato.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
“Stout ropes to check him, and stout oars to guide.” he sent for Aristotle, the most renowned philosopher of the age, to be his son’s tutor, and paid him a handsome reward for doing so.
Plutarch • Parallel Lives: Complete
