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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Only a Poor Old Man, post: 4646365, member: 111037&quot;]I don&#039;t think that this anecdotal story really proves anything. Even if those children fancied the idea of being &#039;Roman&#039;, it didn&#039;t make them any less Greek.</p><p><br /></p><p>The main question here, was the Byzantine Empire a direct continuation of the Roman Empire especially if you look at it in modern ethnological terms? The answer would be no as the most common criteria applied for such identification is ethnicity, language and religion. That&#039;s why the term &#039;Byzantine&#039; was invented. Historians didn&#039;t see the logic into calling the empire Roman any more. However, nobody can deny its influence as the Byzantine Empire kept using the Roman administration structure and was a mixture of both Hellenic and Roman culture especially in the early years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: I just saw Pavlos&#039; response and he explained it great and in better detail than me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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