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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4644368, member: 110504&quot;]Just look at language; kind of the cultural elephant in the room.&nbsp; Koine Greek was the dominant language of the entire eastern Mediterranean, effectively for the duration of the Roman period.&nbsp; In that part of the empire, the Romans themselves had the wit to know a good thing, and appropriate it.&nbsp; That was what made it the lingua franca, for instance for trade beyond the eastern borders, and the New Testament --despite there being an epistle &quot;to the Romans.&quot;&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t till the 4th century that coins in Alexandria replaced Greek legends with Latin.&nbsp; In that context, the shift back to Greek in the 6th century could be seen as a return to earlier Roman norms, rather than a departure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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