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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Voulgaroktonou, post: 4085176, member: 84047&quot;]Many years ago I attended a lecture by a Greek &quot;Byzantine&quot; historian who told of an event that led him to his profession. He was a child on a Greek island when it was liberated from the Turks in the 19th c. He related how, as the Greek marines were debarking from their boats onto the shore, he, like the local populace, was waiving a Greek flag and was shouting &quot;Οι Ελληνες, Οι Ελληνες&quot; - &quot;The Greeks, the Greeks!&quot;. He said that a marine came up to him and replied &quot;Δεν είμαστε Ελληνες,&nbsp; είμαστε Ρωμαίοι.&quot; = &quot;we are not Greeks, we are Romans.&quot; It was that sense of continuity that propelled him into a life of scholarship of the Roman empire.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1064858[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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