Were the Byzantines Actually Romans?

[Bosniensis]

You're a moron. Half of Italy was a Greek colony long before the Romans. The kings from that era were deified and became the Gods of Greeks and Romans.

We already know from Roman historians that Rome was founded by Romulus the son of Aeneas and that its inhabitants were Trojan Greeks. So the early Romans were Greeks who later mixed with other tribes.

Aenus traveled to Italy in 1117 BC via Carthage and founded the settlement that became Rome. By 1100 BC stone structures began to replace the ordinal wooden ones both in Carthage and in Rome.

Romulus made the laws of Rome as is stated by all Roman historians. The Roman Empire was from its inception Greco-Roman.

Trojans were not Greeks but Thracians, they didn't speak Greek language at all.

[bandeirante]

Byzantium was the eastern leftover of the Roman Empire that eventually became Greek due to the heavy Greek presence and influence.
During that period our ancestors were called "Romioi" since "Greek" was considered pagan and therefore bad
There is no other modern nation nowadays that claims Byzantine heritage more than Greece.....and its obvious why.....

romans: latins!
Byzantium: greek!

[Smeagol]

Not really.

[Ouistreham]

I’d say the Byzantine Empire was culturally Hellenistic, politically Roman, and religiously Christian. It wasn’t Latin, though.

Best answer.

The Byzantines, as a culture and an ethnicity, were overwhelmingly Hellenic.
"Roman" was just a prestige loaded synonymous for "imperial".
The Byzantine Empire was just as Roman as the Holy Empire.

[bandeirante]

Best answer.

The Byzantines, as a culture and an ethnicity, were overwhelmingly Hellenic.
"Roman" was just a prestige loaded synonymous for "imperial".
The Byzantine Empire was just as Roman as the Holy Empire.

Roman empire in essence: Italian and Iberian peninsulas and islands!

[bandeirante]

Just wrong. They do not need to speek Latin. Their population was Greek. So they accepted Greek language. By the way Romans were influenced by Hellens so much. Even their pagan religion was similar and again they were calling theirselves Romans. Eastern Romans had scholars that know Latin every time. Thanks to them ancient Roman and Hellenic scripts survived.


Secondly let me tell everything from start. So Bosniensis can know too. There were Arabic and Orientalist influence every time in Byzantine Empire especially in Anatolia. After Arabic conquest of some Byzantine territory religious groups called Iconodules and Iconaclasts came to existence. Iconaclasts influenced by Arabs wanted to remove all images of Christ, our mother Saint Mary and other saints. Iconaclast traitors to Rome were mostly from Anatolia. Iconodules were Hellenic group and they were against all of this. They were mostly from Western Anatolia and Balkans. In the end Iconodules won. But Iconaclasts were always thinking different in their hearts. After Turkish conquest all traitor Iconaclasts accepted Islam easily. Becauce they always wanted to be Arab-Oriental anyway. True Romans were those Hellenic Iconodules that tried to save Europe from Arabic-Orientalist Might. Now their descendants are Greeks. Those Iconaclast-Ottomans-Turks were traitors to Hellenism and Rome always.

[zueira]

greek empire

[catgeorge]

Roots are Roman that later became overwhelmingly Greek.

Greece was always a Senatorial Province in the Roman Empire

[Tauromachos]

Most of Romans civilization was based on Ancient Greek, so yeah

[Zeno]

Ethnically, culturally and religiously, it was Hellenic.

But politically, it was Roman.