The Greeks Quotes

“she has caused the name of Greeks to be understood, not in terms of kinship any more, but of a way of thinking, and people to be called Greeks if they share our educational system, rather than a common ancestry. —Isocrates, Panegyricus (Athens, 380 BCE)”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“GREEK REVIVAL’ 1669–1833”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“that trumps any residual loyalty that some may have felt towards the resurgent Greek-speaking state of Byzantium.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“There is something almost sacred about the bond that unites these troops,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“the last great dynasty of Byzantine emperors, the Palaiologoi, to rule from Constantinople.8”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The Turkish commanders agreed to surrender in return for a guarantee of safety, signed by Alexios himself,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“and would again, found it expedient to comply.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Even Bohemond, the son of Robert Guiscard, who had fought against Byzantium before”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“in central France in November 1095.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Urban formally announced what would become the First Crusade in the town of Clermont Ferrand”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The situation facing Byzantium in the mid-1090s was not so much desperate as catastrophic.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“speech and costumes of visitors he encountered at the imperial court in the capital.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Eustathios of Thessalonica, the city’s bishop and famous for his commentaries on Homer, was struck by the exotic speech and costumes of visitors he encountered at the imperial court in the capital.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The Greek inhabitants are very rich in gold and precious stones,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Constantinople was now the largest and richest city in Europe,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“From Antioch, the crusaders went on their way to Jerusalem to seize the city and massacre everyone in it on 15 July 1099.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“something the Byzantines had never managed to do.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Over the next twenty years, the Normans went on to complete the conquest of Sicily from the Arabs,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Seljuk Turks in the east, Normans in the west, and in the north the latest nomadic groups”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“on all sides during the 1060s:”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“mere forty years after the death of Basil II, Byzantium found itself faced with new and aggressive enemies”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“A mere forty years after the death of Basil II, Byzantium found itself faced with new and aggressive enemies on all sides during the 1060s:”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“This radical new policy provoked the first serious disagreement between the churches of Constantinople and Rome”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“was forbidden throughout the empire to produce or to display images of Christ,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“the Greek-speaking Roman Empire after the death of Heraclius in 641 had turned into the Byzantine.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“THE EYES OF THE UNIVERSE’ 630–1018”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“a sense Heraclius was the last emperor to rule over the people who still called themselves ‘Romans’.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Heraclius entered Jerusalem on 21 March 630, at the head of a solemn procession,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“From then on, this would remain the official title, in Greek, of every ruler to rule from Constantinople,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Heraclius became the first ruler of a ‘Roman’ empire to revive the long-disused Greek word for ‘king’, basileus.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History