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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Suarez, post: 4026933, member: 99239&quot;]It&#039;s an affectation. The name Byzantine neatly encapsulates the civilization of the post-Roman world while &quot;Eastern Roman&quot; is a forced association. If one really feels that the two cultures are one and the same then better to drop the &quot;Eastern&quot; altogether to remain consistent. After all, to use the same argument and logic, the Byzantines never called themselves <i>eastern </i>Romans!</p><p><br /></p><p>The Eastern Roman term is also unnecessarily vague because it transcends the socio-political civilization which immediately comes to mind when you mention the word Byzantine. How else do you differentiate between the pre- and post-Theodosian Eastern Roman world? What should we call the Eastern Romans during the height of the classical period?</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s also worth noting that the emperors who most strenuously pushed the Roman identity card did so for political and religious reasons but it was only a skin deep charade that the ordinary citizen would have been completely unaware of. Culturally all of them were, in fact, as Greek as they&#039;d always been.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rasiel[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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