Homer Among Christian Greeks in the Middle Ages

Edit Huffington Post 07 Jan 2016
The Christianization of ancient Greece in the fourth century and after was not pretty or peaceful. It was the equivalent of centuries-lasting explosion of a nuclear bomb over the country. Practically nothing was left standing. libraries went up in flames; the Olympics abolished; schools shut down; temples smashed to the ground ... The church also used Greek in its liturgy and texts ... Tzetzes wrote his allegorized Homer in the 1140s or 1150s ... ....
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